Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa April 2014 | Page 50

STRATEGIES

BY HAROLD STRYDOM

Your investment horizon
Listed property: is it a long or short term investment?

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outh A f rican listed proper t y delivered
exceptional returns over the last 10 years,
outperforming both the FTSE/JSE All Share
Index (ALSI) and BESA All Bond Index (ALBI),
which both had an excellent decade in their own right.

Gazing into the future requires us to understand
what drove returns over the past decade and then
establish how many of these tailwinds will still be
evident in the next couple of years. House prices
usually rise sharply when the economy is booming

Listed property had an exceptional 10 years (no costs or taxes taken into account)

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