Continuing to hope for 10%+ returns with real estate is stupid because houses are ALREADY UNAFFORDABLE.
Who's going to pay $6M for a single-family townhome in 30 years?
Global real estate is worth something like $500 trillion because a lot of people use houses as a savings account.
This is what RE investors are expecting, and I'm sorry to say this: you're being unrealistic.
Bitcoin is a brand-new asset that has a tiny market cap of less than $1.4 TRILLION.
Bitcoin is volatile BECAUSE it has a small market cap, and because it's being monetized right now.
The market is trying to figure out what it's worth.
It's much more likely for Bitcoin to double its market cap to $2.8T than it is for RE to double to $1 quadrillion+.
The US government will spend hundreds of trillions of dollars in the next 30 years.
As Bitcoin absorbs a lot of that liquidity, IMO real estate investors will be hung out to dry when real estate can no longer outpace inflation.
The real estate Ponzi scheme requires that EVERYONE participates in.
Up until 10-15 years ago, the majority of investors DID see RE as the best savings account they could have.
Returns from RE will drop as newer generations look for an asset that's OUTSIDE of the hands of banks and governments.
Real estate's volatility will be downward while Bitcoin's price violently moves up!