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Are Rich People Investing in Real Estate?

2012 Mar 2

Myths on Real Estate Investment

There are many books on real estate investing that says: if you want to be rich, then you have to invest only in real estate because all rich people are investing in real estate. Well, maybe it is true that rich people like to invest in real estate but it does not mean at all that they became rich by investing in real estate. 

 

There are many books on real estate investing that says: if you want to be rich, then you have to invest only in real estate because all rich people are investing in real estate. Well, maybe it is true that rich people like to invest in real estate but it does not mean at all that they became rich by investing in real estate. 

 

Usually rich people start to invest in real estate only when they become rich but they don’t make their wealth by investing in real estate. And to be true, it is almost impossible to get rich by investing only in real estate. Because every real estate investment requires high initial capital – you cannot just buy a real estate object in good location for $5,000. It is just not possible. Every decent real estate object requires a lot of investments. Usually the largest property objects are more profitable but they require millions or billions of investments. So if you want to get rich by investing in real estate, your chances are very low. 

 

How to Get Rich by Investing in Real Estate

Actually, I see only one possibility for that. If you have at least some capital, maybe you could find an undeveloped country of the third world where real estate properties are extremely cheap, and buy some land in good locations in there. And maybe, just maybe, after many years those land plots will be worth a lot of money. In this way many people became rich by buying land on the beaches of Egypt for pennies… However, you would face high political risk and most of the times local don’t like when foreign investors are buying their lands.

 

Why Riches Like Real Estate Investments

So, why rich people like to invest in real estate? The answer is simple: real estate is an investment that is very good in long term to protect money from inflation and generates stable cash flow. And risk level of real estate is quite decent. It does not mean that there are no similar or better investments. For example, stable dividend stocks would also generate similar and stable cash flow and could even generate higher return. And such stocks would have serious advantage against real estate investments – liquidity.

 

But there is another reason why rich people like invest in real estate. They do not care about liquidity (they always have enough of money), all they do care about is capital safety over long period. And there are some legal advantages or real estate in this field. During some kind or nationalization or other revolution situation assets can be lost. But it is always easier to recover assets in real estate form that some stocks or other assets that might be changed or depreciated too much. 

 

 

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