Is real estate still the safest investment?

[Antotena]

With rising interest rates, housing bubbles, and alternative assets like crypto and gold gaining popularity, can real estate still be considered the ultimate safe haven?

In my country the situation with real estate is even worse because after the war started, thousands of families lost their homes due to bombings and missile attacks. Some people manage to get compensation from the government, but it’s often valued much lower than the real market price of their homes. So I no longer consider investing in real estate a good idea, especially since it has always been less profitable than Bitcoin, and probably gold too.

If you are not a friendly with the government to be a monopolistic business person, you are going to go crazy trying to invest in real estate business. You can get a very good place, seal a deal with the government get all the papers and clearance and all settlement and after 10 years the government can come and demolished everything you have invested on the real estate but if you are lucky to sell everything before they start, then the buyers will be the ones to battle but of course your business will be going to court for selling wrong deals.

Real Estate is profitable though, one thing about it is that if you have good relationship and have money invested in a very demanding setting, you can never go wrong in your business. There are real estate in real estate, some real estate can buy your property and resale again, you can buy and resale into bigger profits than what is invested or buy and make it more luxury and resale again with bigger profits.

[Zanab247]

Yeah correct but timing is very important too.
Real estate investments in my country used to be really very profitable until a few years ago. Especially during the pandemic, house prices increased tremendously in dollar terms.
However, about two years ago, the real estate market began to stagnate significantly. The construction sector almost came to a halt.
I wanted to highlight the importance of timing in real estate investment.

But you can go into other investment with small amount of capital, but you can't use small amount of money to set up real estate investment, because you have some things to put in place before you can run your real estate investment smoothly in the environment. Not that real estate investment is not profitable, but you have to gather big amount of capital before you can go into real estate investment in my country, because you have to spend money to register the company before you can start advertising your company to draw people attention.

Not only real estate investment that have timing, many investments have timing which you have to play your investment well in a due time, because there are some time to earn profit from your investment while there are time to exercise patience not to sell to regret in the future.

[DrBeer]

With rising interest rates, housing bubbles, and alternative assets like crypto and gold gaining popularity, can real estate still be considered the ultimate safe haven?

Real estate is a specific asset.
On the one hand, it is in high demand and has good liquidity.
But as always, there are many nuances.
Take residential real estate, for example. It is a good asset—you can rent it out, buy it at a low price when construction is just beginning, and sell it when the building is ready and people can start living there. On the other hand, the developer must meet the deadlines and quality requirements for the property, and it must be in a good area with a convenient location in order to rent it out. Or it could be like in my country, where real estate in large cities in the east and south of the country has fallen sharply in price after Russia's terrorist attack on my country. The terrorist country is simply destroying peaceful residential cities along with their inhabitants with bombs and missiles. These are cities with populations ranging from 200,000 to over a million. In this situation, real estate becomes a loss-making asset.
The second option is non-residential real estate. I transferred part of my assets to it and purchased non-residential real estate in a new residential complex for subsequent lease. The location allows it to be used as a site for a shop, pharmacy, bank branch, etc. The site has already been leased, and I hope there will be no particular problems, as it is located in a separate residential complex in one of the districts of my country's capital, with a population of more than 5,000 in this residential complex.

[Republikcoin.com]

Real estate can only be safest investment for those that hope so, for me I have never considered real estate as the safest investment. and one thing we must know is there's no investment that is risk free that is the more reason why we shouldn't give 100% trust to any investment because if you do, it might fail you one day and you start all over again. so having know this I would rather diversify my investment instead of trusting one source so as to avoid one particular point of failure.

You're truly a genius at investing by not completely trusting any one. Because, essentially, no investment is risk-free, so choosing several investments that, according to our own analysis, are relatively safe is a very good thing. Especially when it comes to investments like real estate, which also requires care, such as maintaining and keeping it clean to maintain its beauty. I also prefer investing in several things, but I don't choose real estate because I can't afford to maintain it properly, so I prefer Bitcoin, gold, and other options.

[DanWalker]

Real estate can only be safest investment for those that hope so, for me I have never considered real estate as the safest investment. and one thing we must know is there's no investment that is risk free that is the more reason why we shouldn't give 100% trust to any investment because if you do, it might fail you one day and you start all over again. so having know this I would rather diversify my investment instead of trusting one source so as to avoid one particular point of failure.

Every investment has risks and which investment is best will depend on the individual investor's standards and criteria. There’s no universal benchmark.

I support the idea of ​​diversification but real estate is not like other assets, it is quite safe and going all in is not necessarily a bad idea. Any asset can lose demand, but I believe real estate will never fall into that situation. So if you are all in real estate, diversify across different geographies. You will be just as safe as if you diversified into other assets.

[Fakhrulenclix]

Real estate can only be safest investment for those that hope so, for me I have never considered real estate as the safest investment. and one thing we must know is there's no investment that is risk free that is the more reason why we shouldn't give 100% trust to any investment because if you do, it might fail you one day and you start all over again. so having know this I would rather diversify my investment instead of trusting one source so as to avoid one particular point of failure.

Every investment has risks and which investment is best will depend on the individual investor's standards and criteria. There’s no universal benchmark.

I support the idea of ​​diversification but real estate is not like other assets, it is quite safe and going all in is not necessarily a bad idea. Any asset can lose demand, but I believe real estate will never fall into that situation. So if you are all in real estate, diversify across different geographies. You will be just as safe as if you diversified into other assets.

Regarding security, I agree that property investment is the best investment, but everything is worth it with the potential return. So, with any investment, whether it carries a large or small risk, the same applies to the potential return.
Perhaps currently, only natural disasters (which are unpredictable) can derail property investment or pose a major risk. I don't think there are any other options, as property prices in almost all areas continue to increase every year, even if it's not significant.

[armanda90]

You're truly a genius at investing by not completely trusting any one. Because, essentially, no investment is risk-free, so choosing several investments that, according to our own analysis, are relatively safe is a very good thing. Especially when it comes to investments like real estate, which also requires care, such as maintaining and keeping it clean to maintain its beauty. I also prefer investing in several things, but I don't choose real estate because I can't afford to maintain it properly, so I prefer Bitcoin, gold, and other options.

Choosing several investment avoid from risk but its need large capital when putting money at several place for investing, better make diversify with few investment kinds can earn much profitable and has less risk. Real estate actually promising investment way but many side need to check before allocating money to invest in real estate, place location of real estate are existing for few years later and how geographic that location easily loss value at the future?
I have the same thinking with you about investing in bitcoin than real estate, for bitcoin not require maintain cost and fully focus for bitcoin recovering only difference with real estate not only maintain cost but also we must pay taxes every year if still can't sold out.

[Lorence.xD]

You've mentioned about housing bubble and I think that this one should be a good reason for you to consider timing your real estate investment when this bubble pops, this means that you would be buying cheaper real estates because a lot of real estates will be forfeited since that's what tends to happen when there's an economic collapse. I would say that gold and bitcoin would still be my go to investment especially now that bitcoin has gone down in price, that means that you can probably get more bitcoin out of your dollars or whatever currency you have. Regarding the safety levels of real estate, I'd say that it's relative to wherever you live, there are some places in this world that the price is just too much that you'd rather just move to a different place with a more cheaper lands for sale.

[DrBeer]

Question to all participants: Do you consider investing in real estate within the framework of the model “buy inexpensive real estate, wait a while, and sell at a high price when market prices rise”? It seems to me that such a speculative model is precisely what creates the bubbles we have seen in the recent past.
Any resale at a markup inflates the bubble.
But buying real estate for subsequent rental and receiving “passive income” provides stability and compensation for the loss of value of the asset itself in the event of a “price decline” in the market.

[RockBell]

Every investment has risks and which investment is best will depend on the individual investor's standards and criteria. There’s no universal benchmark.

And true that every business have there own risk but the issue now on ground is that when it comes to real estate, it actually a lot and it is even capital intensive, and the most important thing is that how profitable is going to be, because when you have the intention to do the real estate, you have to mark out the inflow of your profit because that is one of the essence of investment.

I support the idea of ​​diversification but real estate is not like other assets, it is quite safe and going all in is not necessarily a bad idea. Any asset can lose demand, but I believe real estate will never fall into that situation. So if you are all in real estate, diversify across different geographies. You will be just as safe as if you diversified into other assets.

That is the problem to investment in real estate is not cheap, and that is what makes it unique, and so the best thing is just to look for investment that you can afford, because the truth of the matter, is that is not everyone that can afford, it and there other sweet assets that can be bought, so you can diversify, but to be real real estate, but not cheap but if there are sponsors.

[eightdots]

Question to all participants: Do you consider investing in real estate within the framework of the model “buy inexpensive real estate, wait a while, and sell at a high price when market prices rise”? It seems to me that such a speculative model is precisely what creates the bubbles we have seen in the recent past.
Any resale at a markup inflates the bubble.
But buying real estate for subsequent rental and receiving “passive income” provides stability and compensation for the loss of value of the asset itself in the event of a “price decline” in the market.

As you mentioned, prices rise in many places. This speculative model causes prices to rise more than normal during periods of rising prices and high inflation. Real estate investment is not a short-term investment; it requires capital above a certain level. Those with this capital also have the financial means to wait a while before selling their real estate investments. When this happens, they cause the price to rise more than normal.

Price declines occur after a certain period of time, but it can be difficult for those looking to buy real estate during periods of high prices.

[reefsea]

I support the idea of ​​diversification but real estate is not like other assets, it is quite safe and going all in is not necessarily a bad idea. Any asset can lose demand, but I believe real estate will never fall into that situation. So if you are all in real estate, diversify across different geographies. You will be just as safe as if you diversified into other assets.

That is the problem to investment in real estate is not cheap, and that is what makes it unique, and so the best thing is just to look for investment that you can afford, because the truth of the matter, is that is not everyone that can afford, it and there other sweet assets that can be bought, so you can diversify, but to be real real estate, but not cheap but if there are sponsors.

On the one hand this also tells us that not everyone can be in real estate as an option for their investment because the capital can be out of our control and something like this will not be too suitable for those of us who are still making conditions from a mediocre monthly salary income as capital.

Real estate sometimes has its own charm where we can still be confident that the progress will continue to move in a better direction unless there may be some problems such as natural disasters that cause destruction in real estate but on the one hand this is also a bitter reality where those who only have a monthly income of middle-class economic standards or below will not be able to be in this type of investment because obviously this will be complicated if forced with minimal capitalization.

[9ja Amaka]

Yes real estate is still one of the safest investment because it’s about houses and lands and their values goes up over time. Even though the interest rates are higher now, property is still Something solid you can keep ,rent out or sell later.
High rates makes buying of houses more expensive, so profit can be slower. Although crypto grows fast sometimes but it also crashes fast. So real estate can still be the safest option.

[skarais]

Real estate is considered a safe investment in the long term, even in any economic climate. However, nothing is 100% safe, there are always risks to consider. However, as usual, real estate isn't the most profitable investment, and its liquidity is relatively low compared to others. A large initial investment doesn't always equate to returns, but there are several other considerations that influence investors to choose real estate.

Some may still be profitable, but with so many investors and a reduction in underlying demand in a given location, real estate investment is no longer attractive. If you need high returns in a relatively short time, then crypto is the choice, not real estate.

[Smack That Ace]

If you need high returns in a relatively short time, then crypto is the choice, not real estate.

But high returns come with high risks. Especially for quick profits, sometimes we have to pay a high price to get it. Everything has its price, and making money has never been easy, let alone getting rich quickly.

In my opinion, although real estate has low liquidity and requires long-term investment to generate profits, it is still the safest investment after all when compared to other investments. However, investing in it is not as easy as investing in bitcoin or stocks, and we need a fairly large amount of capital to start. So real estate is probably not a good option for us.

[Unknown Op]

If you need high returns in a relatively short time, then crypto is the choice, not real estate.

But high returns come with high risks. Especially for quick profits, sometimes we have to pay a high price to get it. Everything has its price, and making money has never been easy, let alone getting rich quickly.

In my opinion, although real estate has low liquidity and requires long-term investment to generate profits, it is still the safest investment after all when compared to other investments. However, investing in it is not as easy as investing in bitcoin or stocks, and we need a fairly large amount of capital to start. So real estate is probably not a good option for us.

Real estate is not as risky as gold because if we will place this investment on a side then we will not be in loss. People are losing dollars in gold because they are thinking that it is very safe because they saw huge pump in a market and after they invested all money in that and now they are expecting that they will be rich in a short time but actually it is not possible and they could lose more money than they will earn from that and Real estate is an asset which we can hold for long term and investors are happy to invest but they should try to take real estate in which people are interested and then sell that if you want to earn . Always check the facilities in that area in which you took any land .

[bakasabo]

Real estate is not as risky as gold because if we will place this investment on a side then we will not be in loss. People are losing dollars in gold because they are thinking that it is very safe because they saw huge pump in a market and after they invested all money in that and now they are expecting that they will be rich in a short time but actually it is not possible and they could lose more money than they will earn from that and Real estate is an asset which we can hold for long term and investors are happy to invest but they should try to take real estate in which people are interested and then sell that if you want to earn . Always check the facilities in that area in which you took any land .

On the other hand, nearly everyone can afford to buy gold, not everyone can afford to buy real estate. If you hold gold, you have more chances to sell it, or sell with little loss. With real estate it a bit matter of luck to find buyer. If you need to sell your real estate quickly, losses will be gigantic. When you say that you can hold real estate as asset, dont forget about bills and tax you have to pay if you dont sell or rent it. Holding gold cost 0. While gold only risk is pump in the market, real estate is exposed to more risks.

[icebar]

Yes real estate is still one of the safest investment because it’s about houses and lands and their values goes up over time. Even though the interest rates are higher now, property is still Something solid you can keep ,rent out or sell later.
High rates makes buying of houses more expensive, so profit can be slower. Although crypto grows fast sometimes but it also crashes fast. So real estate can still be the safest option.

If you have the ability to invest in real estate and have sufficient skills and experience to invest, then of course it can be one of the safest investments. There are also some risks in this platform. Generally, investing in real estate requires an investor to spend a lot of money. Depending on the situation, he may have to keep it for a long time. If there is an unstable situation in the country, there is a possibility of loss in the investment. If someone invests in such an investment platform with a loan, he will have to face big losses.

In comparison, investing in Bitcoin is much easier. If the investor invests here, he will not have to use much money. If he holds Bitcoin slowly, then at one stage Bitcoin can become a big asset which can be much more profitable than real estate.

[DrBeer]

Yes real estate is still one of the safest investment because it’s about houses and lands and their values goes up over time. Even though the interest rates are higher now, property is still Something solid you can keep ,rent out or sell later.
High rates makes buying of houses more expensive, so profit can be slower. Although crypto grows fast sometimes but it also crashes fast. So real estate can still be the safest option.

That's right, but with a number of caveats:
- You must have substantial capital to become the owner of real estate/land.
- If we're talking about long-term plans, the property must be located in an area where demand for real estate will be sustained and the territory itself will not be used for other projects.
- This property must be located in a stable, safe country, in a city with a wealthy population, and in a similar neighborhood
... and there are many other small conditions like this.
 

[TheUltraElite]

Real estate is a comparatively safe investment for the time being. But this is nothing called safest here.

There is always a chance that the housing bubble in any city might burst. But this chance is very low unless something huge happens. Thus you can safely invest in them for years and cash out at good times too.

You can be safer with bitcoin, but theoretically it also carries risk, that you have to accept.