From Beardy Brandon:Why RE is the top investment in a bear market

[Juan V Lopez]

Brandon Turner posted this on his IG recently from the Multi-Family Investor Network Conference and I thought it was a fantastic hit list of why RE is still the top investment vehicle, even in a bear market. This was specifically meant for MF, but I think a majority of it still applies to smaller properties (1-4 units).

• Rents are increasing
• Housing shortage
• Low interest rates (Commercial interest rates are still low compared to residential interest rates, 1-2% lower in some areas)
• Investors less trusting of Wall Street
• Real Estate is proven (Unlike Crypto, which is still setting its foundation
• Tenant-Landlord laws
• Tax incentives

When people are consolidating, when people are playing defense – that's the time to get aggressive and make deals. Anyone have anything to add to the list?

[Mike Dymski]

None of us know what will happen with MF or with global economies but one certainty is that high housing prices coupled with high interest rates will help support the rental market in a nontrivial way.  That does not mean there will certainty of high rents or that property values won't decline...just means that rent levels in growing locations have a huge risk mitigant through the cycle.