Sold the house. Use the capital to trade.
Its hard putting money down on a house when you know you can make such a good return on it. Im up 6% in january alone, thats an extra special month, im glad my capital wasnt stuck in a house.
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Depend from you indoctrination .
Most of population see house as symbol of stability.To have
this symbol,most of them borroved money. 30 years loan make
house some 3 time more expensiv as start price.
Wallstreet "rule" -to buy realty with price some 20%
of your total asset .Asset =100 mln$ ,house is 20 mln $ .
Realties tycon's as Thrump live in heavy debt.
Preis/quality for Central Park West (30000$ for
square metr) worster as preis/quality in Paris
(15000$ for sq.metr with quality ,better as in USA)
Historicaly flat's(McKim,Mead and White -Metropolitan
Museum,Morgan Library &) long time sold out.
Example's ,Paris
http://www.fourseasons.com/paris/guest_rooms_and_suites/empire_suite.html
http://www.fourseasons.com/paris/guest_rooms_and_suites/english_suite.html