Why invest in residential property?

Anyone who has ever owned a house knows that over a period of time, the value of their house goes up. So why not use that same basic understanding to create a pension fund for retirement? Or perhaps to create an income portfolio and benefit from long term capital growth? Whatever your investment criteria, residential property is tangible and in your own hands. This is your house let to your tenants, managed for you.

The same cannot always be said of shares, unit trusts and a myriad of other investments. A residential investment property can be a major part of your investment plans or just part of a larger portfolio.

Residential property has grown in value an average of 11.3% each year since 1968. In fact for the last 60 years property has roughly doubled in value practically every 7 to 10 years. During that time there has only been 3 periods of “negative” growth and values recovered to go above their previous levels within a couple of years.

For further information and the statistics on residential property growth, the data is on the governments Communities & Local Governments website at:

www.communities.gov.uk


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