{"id":312,"date":"2010-03-09T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/residential-property-still-the-best-investment-despite-crash.html"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:27:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:27:23","slug":"residential-property-still-the-best-investment-despite-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/residential-property-still-the-best-investment-despite-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Residential Property Still the Best Investment Despite Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Cash shares or bonds would not have netted you the return on your capital that residential property would have over the past decade, despite the fact that we experienced a pretty major hiccup towards the end there. This is according to figures released recently by the Halifax bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They ascertain that buy to let landlord\u2019s could have made a 187%<span>\u00a0 <\/span>return on their investment over the last ten years. This includes a 3% deduction from gross rents to cover costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">There were things that did actually perform better over the same period but they are things that do not immediately jump to mind. There was, for example, a 242 % return on investment over the last ten years on precious metals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Martin Ellis, group economist at Halifax, said: \u201cProperty has still delivered good long-term gains despite recent turbulence.\u201d But the poor performance of UK shares, which registered one of their worst decades ever, would \u201cmake people think harder whether they want to invest in equities\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In fact the stock market was not a good bet at all, on balance with it only being up on a total returns basis including dividends. With inflation totaling 30% investors failed to make any real return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It is nice to know that even in times of crisis bricks and mortar are still a decent investment that will see a return.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash shares or bonds would not have netted you the return on your capital that residential property would have over the past decade, despite the fact that we experienced a pretty major hiccup towards the end there. This is according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/residential-property-still-the-best-investment-despite-crash.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}