Hi acrushor, I agree mate if you know what you are doing there is money to be made everywhere. But stocks are a lot more risky than property mate. You don't have your property go bust and get left holding worthless script. And to be honest I really can't even apply the words "blue chip" to a lot of stocks anymore.
Plus you are not having your investment managed as a third party i.e. thru directors. And if they stuff up there goes your investment. If you can afford your property it will just sit there thru good times and bad it can't go bankrupt like companies can. So the risk factor just isn't there as it is with stocks.
Now as to returns property returned a lot more than shares did over the last few years - now before you all shoot me let me explain. You could not finance shares the way you could property years ago - unless I went to the wrong lender...lol. All you needed for a property was a 10% deposit.
So you're ability to borrow was unlimited almost if you went after small positive geared property. I am going back 5 - 10 years ago now. Just imagine how much you could have made. In fact lending is still far easier to attain on a property investment than it is on stocks. I say that as banks recognise the inherent risk in stocks.
No one shoot me just an opinion...LOL. In truth a good mix is always the winner but I leave 85% of my money in property so even if I was wiped out in stocks I would have 85% left to recover with. My properties are going nowhere...lol.
