Please click on the link below, you will understand what is the Super Cities in the USA that are developing? In my opinion, the next trillion dollar real estate development will all concentrated in these super cities. It’s best to not deviate from this geography when you need to make a location decision. You can get more research information from Brookings Institute and other research institutions. According to their projections, next 30 years’ population increase will accelerate in these Super Cities, however, as evidenced by current situation, for example, Northeast corridor super city, the developable area is approaching near total build-out, meaning, the future pressure for higher property/land price will even be higher than the past 30 years. You can probably can forget about Prof Shiller’s statistical gloom and doom talk about real estate, the fact is, as long as you are in one of these land-scarce super cities, you will expect that your property value to follow the same pattern it has taken for the past 50 years, doubling every 10 years.

Fifteen minutes. According to a television ad for a local car
dealership that’s all it takes to drive away in a new ride! What a
deal! You’re in a hurry? No need to waste time on those troublesome
details. Just drop in and drive out in a new car. What could be easier?

When I see a TV commercial, especially one that runs frequently, I
have to assume that the advertiser knows what they’re doing. If an ad
doesn’t generate results they’ll stop running it. So, in this case,
the dealer must be finding some people who come in for a ‘15 minute
deal.’

There are many good posts on real estate board, but there are as many flawed posts as well. The flaws come in many forms: like comparing the absolute return between stock and housing price, like using inflation-filtered chart (like that from Schiller) to show a misleadingly presented long period of price stagnation (from 1950 to 1970). All the flaws seem to originate from people’s misunderstandings or lack of understandings on two factors:

1) Inflation.

Nurturing income, income and income. That should be a right mindset for the long term. Defocusing on capital gain has a lot of psychological benefit because it’s the only view that can liberate you from the trap of capital gain. Capital gain is bound to be short-sighted. If one focuses too much on cap gain, he or she would lose sight of the grandier outcome. This grandier outcome of 100% income is what fundamentally differentiate a real property asset from a liguid stock asset. I lament the fact that most posts that tried to compare RE and stock market failed to even mention this. That’s how lost the general public is toward the essence of real property investment.

They take more risks, in fact huge risks, so that they can make millions and billions in the shortest time possible. But smaller RE investors are not in the same level, therefore, they trade time for risk. Smaller investor leveraged less and leveraged more securely. Basically smaller investor is leveraged on the basis of “asset-backed” collateral, that’s why it’s safer.

Please don’t compare Donald Trump with smaller income seeking investors. Even though they both deal with properties, but the playing field is so starkly different it’s like night and day. Comparing these two will only get you confused. Trump can fail but you can succeed, it’s simple to understand that your goal of “success” may only qualify as Trump’s “loser”.