Stocks versus Real Estate,
Who do you thinks win?

#1 Performance: Stocks Win
Based on performance and rate of return, stocks win. The long term mean return of real estate is 3% a year while that of stocks is 9% – 10%. Now given the specific time period of 1978 – 2004, paper investments have trounced the return of hard real estate with the S&P yielding 13.4% while housing delivering an annualized return of around 9%.

#2 Leverage: Real Estate Wins
Though you can use leverage or “other peopleâ...
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