Comparing the performance of a few REIT stock vs stock market index

Other than investing in residential real estate properties (single family houses or multi-family units), I also invest a lot in publicly-listed REITs. Over the last year, technology stocks suffered huge drops. Blue chip companies like Meta and Amazon are cut in half. The unicorns that used to be high flyers during the pandemic are cut by 80% or more. Zoom, sounds familiar? It's the REITs holdings that kept my portfolio from suffering huge losses. We all know the stock market has cycles and the real estate market also has cycles. I wonder how my favorite REIT stocks stack against the [...]

By | 2023-04-12T23:40:48+00:00 April 12th, 2023|REIT|Comments Off on Comparing the performance of a few REIT stock vs stock market index

Why is real estate investment the best option for individual investors?

I used to invest in stocks like a lot of individual investors since it is so easy to buy and sell stocks. All you have to do is set up a brokerage account and start trading. Read some news, analyst reports and you can place orders with a few mouse clicks. Many people think they are pretty good with picking stocks when everything is going up. When the market sentiment goes the other way, they are usually not quick enough to exit their positions at the beginning and can’t resist to sell out of fear when the market actually bottoms. [...]

By | 2019-06-06T06:56:09+00:00 June 6th, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Why is real estate investment the best option for individual investors?