South Africa – Two Views of the Real Estate Market

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“The Economist” magazine recently named the South Africa real estate market as the world’s best-performing housing market in the longer term. The magazine maintains a global house price index, and that shows a cumulative 418% rise in South Africa real estate prices over the last 12 years (2007-2009). The magazine tracks 20 other housing markets, and none have shown that level of performance.

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Real Estate Investing – Part 1 – Buy and Hold Strategy

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The buy and hold investment strategy is the most common strategy in real estate because of how easy it is to understand. It simply involves buying a property and renting it in order to gain on the equity and possibly the positive cash flow.

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