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Re:Why in the world would you own bonds? by divbzero on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @11:34AM (#26492640)
Though real estate has gone up on average for the last several decades, this has not always been true as you can see from historical data. [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2019/03/30/new-study-o... "Old Real Estate Bubbles (1582-1810)"

[2]: https://globalfinancialdata.com/seven-centuries-of-real-esta... "Seven Centuries of Real Estate Prices"

[3]: https://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/07/housing-pr... "100 Years of Inflation-Adjusted Housing Price History"

([3] is inflation-adjusted. For [2] see the second chart for inflation-adjusted prices. [1] is not inflation-adjusted but there wasn’t much inflation in Amsterdam back then.)

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