Property or Stocks?

[i4value]

Are you better off investing in stocks or properties. To answer this question for Malaysians, I compared the gains from the Bursa Malaysia index (KLCI) with the Malaysian Housing Price Index (HPI).

You can see that if you have a 30 years investment horizon, you are better off with stocks.

   


For details refer to In Malaysia, which has better returns; Stock market or Property?

[i4value]

You would be surprised how often this question pops up on Quora over a one year period. This seems to be a repeated question that I have decided to do a 3 min video to provide the answers for the "Tik-Tok" generation.


Very sadly, the answer depends on where you are and your investment horizon. If you are in US or UK, you get the best returns from stocks.


But if you are in Malaysia with a 30 years investment horizon, the best historical returns come from owning properties and not stocks

Go here for the video

[weijian]

You would be surprised how often this question pops up on Quora over a one year period. This seems to be a repeated question that I have decided to do a 3 min video to provide the answers for the "Tik-Tok" generation.


Very sadly, the answer depends on where you are and your investment horizon. If you are in US or UK, you get the best returns from stocks.


But if you are in Malaysia with a 30 years investment horizon, the best historical returns come from owning properties and not stocks

Go here for the video

hi i4value,
This is an instructive article. I refer to your table3 and would like to seek your opinion (which you are well qualified to give):

(1) What are the main reason/s that terrace housing has outperformed? Did it had to do with certain regions in Msia? Lower base? tailwind from middle class Msians working in a developing country?

(2) What are the main reason/s that high rise has seriously underperformed landed properties in all 3 time periods?

[i4value]

I think house prices is a function of supply and demand. The indices shown that high rise is not as favourable as landed properties. I have met many Malaysians who wants landed property titles than strata titles. I think Malaysians grew up with plenty of land and this led to the landed mentality.