I seem to remember many stockmarket analysts saying that stocks and shares outperform bricks and mortar in the long term, if not the short or medium term. Given the current nosedives on the world's stock exchanges, is this still really true?
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Originally Posted by tooquick
Most BTL investors see their properties as some formof pension fund, providing a healthy and reliable income in later years. The sector has certainly outperformed most Anglo-Saxon stock markets recently and has grown to become the largest single property sector in the UK at over £500bn.
The options are also increasing with the mechanisms now in place in many cases to have a BTL property included in a SIPP (Self Invested Personal Pension) although the rules here are stringent and you need to take care.
If you see property as the way for you to build a pension then check out some of the excellent investment deals around. It's possible to build quite a substantial portfolio over a few years by using borrowings already on offer as part of the package in many deals.
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