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by retube 2036 days ago
"Safer than stocks. The stock market is volatile and risky compared to property ownership"

That's a bold statement. Property markets can crash too. And what happens if a crappy tenant trashes the place, or the property turns out to have subsidence, or asbestos, or covered in dangerous cladding? And insurance doesn't pay (for whatever reason, plenty of real world examples of this)

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Also in the stock market you have some stronger notion of the efficient market hypothesis working in your (or better the average persons) favour