real estate investing terms

In the long term is what really makes the profitability of investing in stocks / real estate than simply putting it in the bank?

The answer is that been a few points in time in the last 100 years that cash would have been better. An example would be if you had bought stocks or real estate, makes a year and is sold now, you have done better with cash. But with few exceptions, would have made more money in shares than in real estate and more in either stocks or real estate in cash. This is true even if you had bought at a market peak, provided that was not the most recent peak.

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