Ben Habib, CEO, writes for the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) Investment Conference 2011…The reason often cited for bad property investment experiences is “too much leverage”. Actually the primary reason is overpaying for an asset in the first place and then, secondarily, employing debt finance against this inflated price or a revaluation. The net effect is to render the debt unserviceable by the low income yields being generated by the property.
