In Vancouver, property pays better than stocks or bonds
But its "liveable" qualities are also making it unaffordable as soaring demand makes rise in home prices seemingly unstoppable
Vancouver
IN the spring of 2012, Dustan Woodhouse, then a 40-year-old Vancouver mortgage broker, broke the cardinal rule of saving for retirement: he liquidated his retirement fund, took the tax hit and ploughed the rest into the local real estate market.
"People told me I was crazy," says Mr Woodhouse, 45, whose plan is to buy and have paid off 10 such investments by his late sixties. "But that's our pension - that's what that property is."
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