Jakarta Real Estate Portal

So you have money burning a hole in your pocket and the stock market is not behaving comfortably. Now that the real estate boom has come to an abrupt end in most of the country, it is back to basics for real estate investors. No more standing in line to get a new release condo under contract just to flip the contract on the way out the door.

investing in real estate has always been the best investment. It is because as a general rule, homes appreciate about four or five percent every year. This figure varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, and region to region. Taking on a general note five percent does not seem like that much at first but we all know that stocks at most of the times appreciate much more, and one can easily earn over the same return with a very safe investment in treasury bills or bonds. Just suppose that some one bought a house for a certain amount of money. This amount was not paid as cash. So he got a mortgage too. After making the entire calculations one can conclude that the overall return on the investment is much more. The rate of return when buying a home is higher than most any other investment one can make. By making deductions in income tax, the government further sub-sides the purchase of a home and all of the interest and property taxes one pays in a given year are deducted from the gross income to reduce the taxable income. We all know that the property taxes are deductible. This means that whatever property taxes we pay in a given year may also be deducted from gross income, lowering the tax obligation.