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What is an investment property?

It is often assumed that an investment property is any property that one purchases because it grows in capital over time. Though this is a widely known view, is not exactly correct. In actual fact and investment property is a property that was purchased and not occupied by the owner. It is for investment purposes and not primary home. There are many investment properties, just to name a few: residential, commercial, industrial and holiday type properties. Purchasing reasons are generally speaking divided into two categories: either for capital growth of for income. To learn more about this visit the property investor forum (component/option,com_smf/Itemid,134/) and to learn more about property investing (articles/) also search the property articles.
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