investment in real estate is differentiated from stocks in one major attribute. real estate is usually bought in a highly leveraged state.
so a 10% increase in value of house usually means a 100% increase to your actual investment.
but conversely a 10% reduction means that your down payment is wiped out.
RE has been booming last few years and so most people are claiming that it always goes up... but its prudent to use actual figures from past decade to
see if it actually increases constantly.
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