Thinking About Investing?

Before we begin, I want to point out that the blog posts in the investing category are geared more toward people who are interested in becoming a real estate investor but want to know more. If you’ve already started down this path, you could theoretically skip these posts; however, if you read through them, you might find some new information. Maybe you’ll learn some strategies you haven’t tried yet, or weren’t even aware of. Maybe you’ll just find validation you’re on the right track, or a reminder of you why you got into investing in the first place…

What I’m saying is that there’s a lot of good information here, and it can’t hurt to give it at least a quick glance.

As for those of you who are looking to get into the real estate investment game, my goal here is to give you all the information you need to decide whether real estate investment is right for you, and then teach you how jump in. So let’s get started!

In the United States, the average commercial real estate investment returns over 20 years are around 9.5%. Diversified and residential investments average around 10.6%.

Both of these are higher than the S&P 500 Index, which has an average annual return of about 7% over the last 20 years. If we look back historically, for example to the housing price burst in the 2008 recession, even during that time real estate investment still did better than the housing market as a whole.

These stats alone obviously show a great reason to buy real estate. But what do investors hope to get when they’re buying property? According to the most recent National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Investment & Vacation Home Buyers Survey, 37% plan to rent it for income, 16% for the possibility that the price will appreciate, and 15% because it was a good deal.