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Renting in usually a better investment than buying

Americans have typically “learned” that buying a house is a good investment. It turns out that’s not necessarily true. Choosing to rent frees up capital that can be invested for higher returns. Most of the past 50 years in the U.S. shows that renting, and investing the freed-up capital, has enabled greater wealth accumulation than buying a house.