Insight – Where does Real Estate investing fit in the All Seasons Portfolio?
In this rather lengthy post, the following topics will be discussed:
- In what economical environments are real estate biased to perform well (economic growth and inflation)?
- Five ways of investing in real estate, regardless how much money you have
- How to adjust your balanced portfolio when including real estate - a template for adjusting portfolios regardless of new asset class
- A list of resources with some of the best books on real estate investing
There are numerous opportunities and strategies for making money by investing. The ultimate goal is always to achieve a combination of positive cash flow and value appreciation of your owned asset. It is just a matter of preferred strategy for the investor which dictates how you can grow your wealth.
With the All Seasons Portfolio strategy, you can achieve profits but with less volatility than on the stock market. This is achieved by having a balanced portfolio that is diversified between asset classes. Typically, those asset classes are stocks, long-term government bonds, inflation-linked bonds, gold and commodities, with the following allocation between them.
There are of course many more asset classes available than the five listed above. One extremely important such asset class is real estate, which is a popular investment object among investors. It is so attractive, because it offers profits in two ways: value appreciation of the property, as well as monthly cash flow from rental income.
In this deep dive article, we will be looking more closely at real estate investing - how you can get exposure to it and with how much capital - and how it fits into an All Seasons Portfolio. Let us first begin with the latter of these two topics by answering the question of what economic biases real estate have.