Enrichment
The rate of return on everything

3rd January 2018
New research on the rate of return on different asset classes over the last 150 years published here finds that total returns on residential real estate are on a par with the returns to equities – on average, about 7% per annum – but they are far less volatile. This article will be of particular interest to students and teachers who have come across the work of Thomas Piketty and the famous r-g (the % real return on wealth - the real rate of growth).
A key takeaway from the paper is that housing returns are similar to equity returns over the very long run, but also less volatile, weakly correlated with the business cycle and less correlated across countries.
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