You Can't Control the Housing Market, but You Can Control What You Do About It
Shelter is a basic necessity and investing in your own shelter, and in the shelter of others, has long been a great way to build wealth. But the housing market is often volatile, a source of both opportunity and unpredictability.
Many of those factors are beyond your control, such as interest rates, national and local economic trends, rules and policy changes at all levels of government, and the effect of such macro factors on individual sectors of the real estate investing world.
But that doesn't mean you're powerless. That unpredictability is balanced by a variety of ways to navigate and invest in the housing market -- including direct investment in properties, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and homebuilder stocks.
Source Fool.com
