Bricks, leases and light hold their value when money does not.
When prices rise, the value of the roof over your head rises with them. That is the simple case for property as a hedge, and it is mostly true.
Rents follow inflation with a short lag, so a well-let home keeps its yield. Fixed-rate debt gets cheaper in real terms every year. And land, unlike currency, cannot be printed.
The caveats matter. Illiquidity is the price of the hedge. Location decides whether you keep pace or beat it. And a house bought at the wrong number in the wrong year is no hedge at all.
Our view: buy the street, borrow carefully and hold long. The rest is noise.
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