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I would say the best time right now is Canada Pre Construction Condos.According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, The Pre-construction prices increased by almost 55% in the last two years and are still increasing.The best part about investing in Pre-Construction is that you buy the future house at today price.If you do the proper research and utilize the data you can earn a lot of profit.If you need contacts or trusted builders to get in touch with and get more information do let me know as I have a few good contacts within Canada.

Real Estate is always local. The local factors (such as crime, job opportunities, roads & new infrastructure, schools, water) will have the biggest impact on a particular location's price. There is no one rule fits all in real estate markets. Thus, there is no way to answer if real estate prices will come down across India. There will always be some markets that prices will go up.In the metros (especially Mumbai), prices are likely to come down in some segments. There is a huge amount of unsold inventory. In just Mumbai alone there are 83,000 unsold houses with a total value of 1 lakh crores/$20 billion. Knight Frank says 83,000 Mumbai residential units remain unsold. However, the developers are playing a game of chicken and don't want to lose face by reducing the prices. Why real estate prices won't fall! I don't think they can indefinitely avoid the eventual price drop. Some of them are paying as high as 60% in annual interest to keep their projects afloat.In major metros prices are already flattening or dropping on an average.Global Property GuideThere is a saying in the market: the bulls and bears always win. The pigs get slaughtered though. If you follow the trend, you are likely to burn your fingers.

It's dangerous to group all real estate into one bucket, because it's so hyper local.Just check out this price heat map of median home prices in California (from Trulia)It's absolutely all over the place.The two things we need to remember are:Real estate investing is heavily location-dependent; for example, Bay Area real estate market behaves very differently from Detroit real estate market.Real estate investing is category dependent. Buying a strip mall has different set of challenges than buying an office building. Buying a townhouse is different from buying a condo, etc.Rather, it is useful to think of real estate as an asset class that has many different sectors and subgroups, etc.It's kind of like the stock market.We systematically breakdown the abstract notion of the stock market into regions, sectors, industry groups, etc. In addition, we provide vehicles like futures and ETFs that give you exposure to a part or the whole of the stock market.If we go with this analogy, if you are buying a single property, it's kind of like picking an individual stock.As you may already know, picking an individual stock will yield results that vary wildly from person to person.Thus, I can't tell you whether the real estate property you bought will outperform stocks as a whole. There's just simply too much going on.Having said that, what I can tell you is this: you will probably be ahead buying the stock market through an index fund than purchasing a random piece of real estate.Historically, real estate as an asset class underperformed stocks.Also, it is difficult to reinvest your real estate cash flow back into real estate, because transaction costs are high.Convince yourself by seeing this chart below which compares the S&P 500 with un-levered real estate returns.If you are interested in really getting down to the nitty gritty about real estate vs stocks in pennies and dimes, I'd like to invite you over to Personal Finance Case Studies community.