Investment in Real Estate
Why Property Outshines the Rest
Property’s phenomenal leveraging power
When I tell people that property is not just as good as other investments, not just a little better, and not even just a lot better, but tens or even hundreds of times better than other investments, most people do not believe it.”
Realty Reality
Check So let me show you why property is so much better. Imagine you have a lump sum of money to invest. The amount doesn’t matter, as the same principles apply whether you have R5,000, R10,000, R100,000 or R1 million.
Let’s assume you have R100,000. Let’s also assume that you are considering investing either in the stock market or in property. (For the sake of simplicity, let’s ignore all brokerage fees and commissions).
I simply want to pose four questions, first for shares, then for property…
1. How many rands worth of shares can you buy with R100,000 cash? For most people when you have R100,000 cash, you can buy exactly R100,000 worth of shares. 1. How many rands worth of property can you buy with R100,000 cash? You could buy a R100,000 property. But you could also buy a R200,000 property, by taking out a mortgage for 50 percent of the property’s purchase price. You could also buy a R1 million property by taking out a 90% mortgage. If you had bought wisely, the rent would more than cover your expenses. 2. The moment you buy your R100,000 worth of shares using your R100,000 cash, how much is your shares worth? At any point in time, a share is worth that price at which willing buyers and willing sellers agree to transact a parcel of shares. In other words, at any one time, there is one, and only one, market price for those shares. The moment you buy R100,000 worth of shares using your R100,000 cash, they are worth exactly R100,000. 2. The moment you buy your R1 million property using your R100,000 cash and a mortgage of R900,000, how much is your property worth? Just as people can pay too much for a used car, they can
Property’s phenomenal leveraging power
When I tell people that property is not just as good as other investments, not just a little better, and not even just a lot better, but tens or even hundreds of times better than other investments, most people do not believe it.”
Realty Reality
Check So let me show you why property is so much better. Imagine you have a lump sum of money to invest. The amount doesn’t matter, as the same principles apply whether you have R5,000, R10,000, R100,000 or R1 million.
Let’s assume you have R100,000. Let’s also assume that you are considering investing either in the stock market or in property. (For the sake of simplicity, let’s ignore all brokerage fees and commissions).
I simply want to pose four questions, first for shares, then for property…
1. How many rands worth of shares can you buy with R100,000 cash? For most people when you have R100,000 cash, you can buy exactly R100,000 worth of shares. 1. How many rands worth of property can you buy with R100,000 cash? You could buy a R100,000 property. But you could also buy a R200,000 property, by taking out a mortgage for 50 percent of the property’s purchase price. You could also buy a R1 million property by taking out a 90% mortgage. If you had bought wisely, the rent would more than cover your expenses. 2. The moment you buy your R100,000 worth of shares using your R100,000 cash, how much is your shares worth? At any point in time, a share is worth that price at which willing buyers and willing sellers agree to transact a parcel of shares. In other words, at any one time, there is one, and only one, market price for those shares. The moment you buy R100,000 worth of shares using your R100,000 cash, they are worth exactly R100,000. 2. The moment you buy your R1 million property using your R100,000 cash and a mortgage of R900,000, how much is your property worth? Just as people can pay too much for a used car, they can