Real Estate Investments
People will tell you about how the value of a certain plot of land or house grew 50 or 100 times in 40-50 years. This sounds fabulous, but is actually nothing special. The BSE Sensex has become 300 times its value in 38 years. Even a gain of 100 times in 50 years comes to only 9.60% per annum, which is good, definitely not exceptional.
There are perhaps five sources of gains in the price of a given property, and the final profits is a product of these:
There are perhaps five sources of gains in the price of a given property, and the final profits is a product of these:
- The original change in usage of a piece if land from agricultural or barren to residential or commercial
- The development of physical infrastructure which makes this land usable for the new purpose
- The improvement in livability or commercial viability as the area becomes more and more populated
- The periodic booms and busts that afflict real estate
- The general inflation of the economy that becomes part of the visible change in the property's price
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