An investment of £100,000 into an average regional property in early 2000 was worth over £270,000 twenty years later according to Nationwide Building Society. At the same time, it would have provided a valuable rental income.
Property may or may not provide similar returns in the future, but it remains one of the most reliable ways for a personal investor to generate additional income and capital gains and to provide a stable base for an investment portfolio or a retirement plan.
Property prices fell back again in January according to figures published today by Nationwide. That is now five months in a row, a rarity in the UK property market.
According to a newly published report by Hamptons Research the gain made by property owners surged to a new record level when they sell.
Like the Jewellery Quarter and Digbeth before it, this previously forgotten corner of Birmingham city centre is suddenly where developers want to be.