The residential property sector is set to welcome a new wave of professional investment. Joanna Faith looks at whether the asset class is a good play for retail investors...
We save for them, read about them, speculate about their value, and spend hours searching for the perfect one. Yet despite being a nation obsessed with home-owning, the investment fund potential of residential property has, up until now, been largely overlooked. While commercial property has for decades been a staple part of many investors’ portfolios, residential property has yet to achieve any real eminence among retail investors and their advisers. Now, a renewed push from both the government and residential property industry is hoping to reverse this trend and encourage a new w...
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