[the_fire_friar]

Not sure why this is down voted. Real estate is a common hedge against inflation. It's just much more complex of an investment vehicle and you can't just jump in and out of real estate like you can stocks.

You could opt for a REIT instead.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp

[staticman2]

While I don't know why it was downvoted "Buy real property if you can" is pretty crummy advice, unless you think an investor doesn't have to do any due diligence and should "just buy" stuff.

How do you know what property to buy? How much property should you own as a percent of your net worth? What is the expected return of the property? What is the likelyhood you will lose money on the property versus the likelyhood you will make money?

Those are all important questions not addressed by "Buy real property if you can"

As for Reits, there's not a lot of financial advisors advocating high investments in Reits. For example the Vanguard Target Retirement fund of funds have very little. The Schwab Intelligent Portfolio seem to call for 5% REITS in an example I pulled up online.

Maybe you know something Vanguard and Schwab does not, but again, there's that question of due diligence.