Many Southampton
people ponder the best places to invest their hard-earned savings and the best
piece of advice I can give you is to do your homework and speak to lots of
people. It depends on your attitude to risk versus reward. Normally, the lower
the risk, the lower the reward whilst a higher risk is normally associated with the possibility
of higher returns, yet nothing is guaranteed. At the same
time, higher risk also means higher possible
losses on your investment - yet if one looks at the bigger picture, the biggest
threat to investing, predominantly when the investment is made
in the short term, isn’t risk but actually volatility.
So where should you invest? Building society,
the stock market, gold or property are options. This article isn’t designed to
give you advice – just show you how different investments have performed over
the last decade.
Let me start with the humble semi-detached
house in Southampton ... which in 2009 was worth £185,300 … so assuming I
bought that property for that figure, then I looked at what if I had invested
the same amount of money in a building society, into gold and finally the stock
market…
Putting your money into the stock market (FTSE100) would
have brought a return of 30.2% on your capital over those 10 years and an
average of 3.79% a year in dividends (making an overall increase of 74%).
Gold doesn’t earn interest – yet it has increased in
value by 26.9% over the same 10 years whilst putting your money in the building
society, the money hasn’t increased in value, but would have earned you
interest of 24.46% or the equivalent of 2.21% per year.
Investing in an average semi-detached house in Southampton
over the last 10 years has seen the capital increase by 53% (an equivalent of 4.34%
per annum) and the income (i.e. the rent) has provided a return, based on the
original purchase price, of 121.15% or the annual equivalent of 8.26% … meaning
the overall return, based on the original purchase price of an average semi-detached
property in Southampton, is 12.6% per annum.
Notwithstanding No.11
Downing Street’s grab at the profits of buy to let landlords by hitting the buy
to let sector with several fiscal punishments with a 3% stamp duty level, a decrease
in high rate tax relief for landlords and an increase in rate of CGT on
residential property profits, the facts remain that ‘bricks and mortar’ is
still one of the preeminent and most constant investments available.
The bottom line is, the buy to let investment remains
the mainstay of the British property market, serving to support aspiring
homeowners as they work to conquer the, sometimes difficult, financial obstacles
of home ownership. With Central Government over the last 30 years only paying
lip service to address the lack of new homes being built or tackling the affordability
on a consequential scale, it is highly probable this will continue for the next
5/10/15 years as there will always be a call for a respectable, and above all, honest
buy to let landlords delivering decent housing to those that need it.
If you would like to pick my brains on the Southampton Property Market – pop in for a coffee or drop me a line on social media or email.
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