The Importance of Long-Term Data in Real Estate

In real terms, the annual increase was still 3.2%, which is obviously much more attractive compared to the 0.2% over time. Compared to the historical returns reported in this article, these averages are very high. This indicates that data from the post-World War II era is very likely to give an overstated impression of the performance of real estate. And if you want to evaluate it, you have to use long-term data.