That comment was not directed at you at all. Your comments are taken on board. There is a distinct lack of integrity by many who bag real estate on the basis on what they believe should be the case , when at present the general marketplace with shares is in a very parlous state. Agree now is the time to be looking, commodities have done well, but by and large many are hurting or those in super will be as they get to retirement.
A large number of experts, or so called, dare not call and end to the decline in the US and that does not bode well. As with arguments about the long haul, things get better in the long haul, we have had 4 years of good returns, look at the big picture with shares - the same applies with r/e. Only thing in Oz there has not been a sharp correction in property and there is now a distinct possibility that we must contemplate a return to real estate by many cashed up people to real estate because of its safe haven perception.
So many of the dogmatic negative posts on real estate are neither fair nor based on the big picture and that is where they lack integrity. The property market is just not in disarray and your opinion on investment properties is just that, an opinion, to which you are entitled, it may go the other way but at present there are no sustained figures to support either contention.
