Real Estate as an Investment?

With property, you have things like lower stamp duty. It should one be considering such a big investment at a time when say, interest rates are unstable. I think, you know, all bets are off on real estate going by what has happened in the last four, five years or 10 years ever since pre-reya days. You pay for the house or you create a liability for buying a house and you may not get it.