Invest equities long term

If you could get the mortgage and put the 120k in shares back then I wonder how it would compare. Leverage is powerful.
I don't believe that you could ever get a 25 year loan to purchase shares secured on the shares alone.
 
The Economist, not known for being down on capitalism, suggests that future returns may reflect a different paradigm.

 
An example where a property in a reasonable location, purchased at a reasonable rental yield, and not promoted by some dodgy developer or investment manager, worked out badly.

That is a ridiculous specification. You are asking me to specify a successful investment which was not successful.

I might as well ask for someone to identify a share which was bought in a good company which was not overleveraged which had a good future and which was reasonably priced which then went bankrupt.

Brendan
 
I didn't intend it to be a ridiculous specification. I am simply saying that property investment sensibly done even using significant leverage is not risky.

That the nature of a mortgage means that the risk usually associated with leverage is largely mitigated.
 
Not sure that was the general sentiment between 2009 and 2013
 

But you are not talking about investing in property in this case. You are taking about being in the property business and that is not the same thing, just like buying shares in a company is not the same as setting up and running the company. In both cases you are providing more than just the capital and you should expect the returns to be higher.

The literature, and there is plenty of it, rightly classifies property as a high risk, low return asset class in the context of investing not in the context of running a property business.
 
That the nature of a mortgage means that the risk usually associated with leverage is largely mitigated
Sure a mortgage schedule is reasonably predictable.

But on the income side private rents fell 25% 2008-12, voids increased a lot too.

The rental business with high leverage is high risk. A lot of people who bought in 2006 are getting out now with a sigh of relief. A capital loss after a decade and a half and only breaking even in cash terms is nothing to write home about.
 
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Sure a mortgage schedule is reasonably predictable.

But on the income side private rents fell 25% 2008-12, voids increased a lot too.
That's true but running the numbers initially you should account for this.


The rental business with high leverage is high risk. A lot of people who bought in 2006 are getting out now with a sigh of relief. A capital loss after a decade and a half and only breaking even in cash terms is nothing to write home about.
I bought a BTL in 2005 (agreement signed in 2004 so not quite at peak price.) Interest only tracker at ECB + 1%. It only came out of negative equity in 2020 but it has been a superbly profitable investment for me. And (nearly) all with the bank's money, not mine.
 
but it has been a superbly profitable investment for me.
Was it superbly profitable in 2007 when ECB rates +1pp were 4% and gross yields about the same? After tax?

So a negative equity BTL for a decade and a half wasn't a drag on your life choices or borrowing ability. But that wouldn't be the case for many people, and rarely clear ex ante.
 
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I would like to see this graph extended from say 1995 to 2022 and also an equities graph from 1995 to 2022 and compare both to see the big picture because i think that 8 years is a bit short for long term investors and also this graph relates to the years wnen people went crazy about buying and flipping property etc. and then there was a catistropic crash in both property and equities.
 
Property index since 1970

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