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버핏의 과거 발언을 인용해 부동산은 거래가 느리고 복잡해 주식보다 기회가 적다고 설명. 2012년엔 가격/임대료 비율이 12 수준으로 싸서 대량 매입을 언급했으나, 현재 약 16으로 2008년 버블 직전보다 비싸 부동산은 현재 매력이 낮다고 주장. 주식은 공포로 자주 저평가되므로 기회가 많다고 강조. 영상 말미에 체크리스트 무료 다운로드를 홍보.
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in respect to real estate, it's so much harder than stocks. There's just so much more opportunity, at least in the United States, there's so much more opportunity that presents itself in [clears throat] security market than it does in real estate. In 2012, Warren Buffett said if he could snap his fingers and buy a couple hundred thousand single-family homes, he'd do it in a heartbeat.
Today, he's telling investors to stay away from real estate entirely. So, what changed? It's not that Buffett suddenly flip-flopped or lost his mind. There's one metric he tracks that told him real estate was a screaming buy in 2012. That same metric today, it's telling a completely different story.
And once you see the numbers, you'll understand why what looked like easy money back then is now a losing bet. Listen to Buffett explain. In respect to real estate, it's so much harder than stocks in terms of uh negotiation of deals, time span, the involvement of multiple parties in the ownership usually when when when real estate gets in trouble, so you find out you're dealing with more than an equity owner.
Uh uh But, there have been times when uh large amounts of real estate uh have changed hands at bargain prices, but usually stocks were cheaper, but they were a lot easier to do. So, uh [clears throat] Charlie did more real estate. This Charlie enjoyed real estate transactions. Uh And and he actually did a fair number of them in the last 5 years of his life.
But he was uh you know, he was playing a game that was an interesting game, too. But I think if he you'd asked him to make a choice when he was 21 he had to either be a new stocks exclusively the rest of his life or real estate the rest of his life, he would have chosen the stocks in a second. And then the there's just so much more opportunity at least in the United States.
There's so much more opportunity that presents itself in [clears throat] the security market than it does in real estate. And then in real estate you're dealing with a usually dealing with a single owner or a family that owns maybe a large property they've had a long time. Maybe they borrowed too much of money against them.
Maybe the population trends are against them. But but to them it's an an enormous decision. When you walk down to the New York Stock Exchange you can do billions of dollars worth of business totally anonymous and you can do it within 5 minutes. And the trades are complete when they're complete. In real estate, when you make a deal a big deal with a distressed lender and you know, when you sign the deal then you go into another phase.
I mean then people start negotiating more things and more things and it's it's it's a whole different game and a different type of person to some extent enjoys the game. We uh we we did a few real estate deals that came our way in 2008 and 9, but but see the amount of time that they would take us compared to doing something intelligent and probably better uh in securities uh there's just no comparison.
I mean, in a real estate deal, every every sentence is as important to the person and and in stocks uh, if somebody needs to sell 20,000 shares of Berkshire, or something, they call us if the price is right. It's done in 5 seconds. Warren Buffett built one of the greatest fortunes in history doing one thing better than anyone else.
Buying assets when they're on sale. Textile mills nobody wanted. Coca-Cola when it stumbled. Apple when Wall Street panicked. His playbook never changed. Wait for the market to freak out, then buy what everyone else is rushing to sell. But here's what's interesting. Those panic sales happen constantly in stocks.
In real estate, almost never. Why? It comes down to a fancy finance term called liquidity. How fast you can buy or sell something. Stocks, you can trade them in seconds from your phone. No negotiation, no paperwork, no waiting. Just click and you're done. Millions of people do this every single day.
And that's exactly what causes the wild price swings we see in the stock market. When something's that easy to trade, people stop thinking and start reacting. Good headline? Everyone buys. Bad headline? Everyone sells. The stock price swings wildly, even though the actual business didn't change much at all.
These are the opportunities Buffett built his fortune on. Buffett says the market is driven by mood, not math. And it's exactly why mispricings happen so often with stocks. The easier something is to trade, the more emotional people get. Think about the crashes you have lived through. March 2020, market drops 34% in 3 weeks.
December 2018, down 20% in 3 months. 2022, the Nasdaq falls 33%. These weren't once-in-a-lifetime events. They happen every few years like clockwork. And every single time, Buffett's buying while everyone else is selling. Compared to the stock market overall, the price swings of individual stocks are even crazier.
Apple has dropped more than 30% four times in the last decade. This is Apple, one of the largest and most iconic companies in the world, not some random penny stock. One of those crashes, that's when Buffett made his move. It's early 2016. Apple reports its first-ever drop in iPhone sales. Wall Street freaks out.
Headlines scream that Apple is finished. Analysts slash their price targets. The stock tanks 30% in a few months. What does Buffett do? He backs up the truck. By the end of 2016, Berkshire quietly owned a massive chunk of Apple. Bought on the cheap while everyone else is panicking. That bet eventually turns into over $100 billion in profit.
His biggest win ever. Or look at 2022. Netflix drops 75%. Everyone says streaming is over. Too much competition. People are canceling subscriptions. The stock goes from $700 to 170. What happened next? It bounced back to over $1,000. Same business, same content. The only thing that changed was the mood.
The lesson? When fear drives the price down, Buffett doesn't run. He buys because he knows short-term panic creates long-term opportunity. Now compare the volatility of stock prices to that of real estate. Completely different game. Transactions are private, slow, and complicated. There's no ticker on your phone showing you what your house is worth every second.
No one's refreshing Zillow in a panic. Properties get appraised maybe once a year. And when you actually want to buy or sell, it's a process. Negotiations, inspections, financing, lawyers, title companies, the whole deal. Sellers don't just take the first offer, especially if it feels low. They're anchored to what they think it is worth, what they paid, what they renovated, what their neighbors sold for.
And buyers can't move fast even if they wanted to. They need financing approval, appraisals, inspections. All that friction slows everything down. It acts like a shock absorber, preventing the kind of wild swings you see in stocks. That's the difference. Stocks are built for speed. Real estate is built for stability.
And that's exactly why you see way more mispricings and way more opportunities in stocks than you ever will in real estate. So, with all that said, you'd think Buffett would tell everyone to avoid real estate completely at all times, right? Well, not quite. Even Buffett admits there are rare moments when real estate gets so cheap that you can't ignore it.
When prices crash hard enough, usually after some kind of crisis or panic, the math becomes impossible to pass up. Even with all the headaches, the slowness, the complications, the deal is just too good. 2012 was one of those moments. Listen to what Buffett said back then about the real estate market.
Equities are still cheap relative to any other asset class. But they're not say that single family homes are cheap now, too. Yeah, single family homes but If I had a way of buying a couple hundred thousand single family homes and I and I a way of managing. The management is enormous. It's really a problem cuz they're one by one.
They're not like apartment houses. So, but I would load up on them and I would I would take mortgages out at very, very low rates. But but if if anybody is thinking about buying homes 5 years ago, they couldn't buy them fast enough cuz they thought they were going to go up and now they don't buy them because they think they're going to go down and interest rates are far lower.
Uh it's a way in effect to short the dollar because you can you can take a 30-year mortgage out of a turns out your interest rate's too high next week, you refinance lower. And if it turns out it's it's too low, the other guy's stuck with it for 30 years. So, it it's a very attractive asset class now.
So, what did Buffett see in 2012 that made him want to buy hundreds of thousands of homes? And why doesn't that opportunity exist today? It all comes down to one number. The price-to-rent ratio. Calculating this metric is simple. Take the price of a house, divide it by what you could rent it for in a year, and you get a number that tells you if real estate is cheap or expensive.
It works just like a PE ratio for stocks. Historically, anything under 15 means real estate is undervalued. In 2012, many cities were sitting at 12. Phoenix and Las Vegas, below 10. Think about what that means. You could buy a house, rent it out, and have your entire purchase price paid back in 8 to 10 years just from rent.
No appreciation needed. At the same time, mortgage rates were at historic lows and rental demand was surging. The math wasn't just good. It was screaming at you. That's why even Buffett, someone who had been against investing in real estate essentially his entire career, said he'd load up if he could.
The opportunity was too obvious to ignore. Now, let's look at where things stand today. Back in 2012, the price-to-rent ratio was below 12. Now, it's sitting at 16. Higher than it was during the last housing bubble. Let me say that again. The metric that told Buffett to buy in 2012 is now worse than it was before the 2008 housing market crash.
So, if Buffett were looking at real estate today, what would he see? Prices way too high compared to what you can actually earn in rent. Mortgage rates are still elevated. Home prices keep climbing faster than rents. The math doesn't work. Does that mean real estate is a terrible investment no matter what?
No, but it does explain why Buffett was all in during 2012 and radio silent today. Here's the lesson. Valuation always matters. It doesn't matter if it's stocks or real estate or anything else. Buffett waits for the price to make sense relative to what the asset can earn. In 2012, real estate passed that test with flying colors.
Today, it fails badly. And that's exactly why the stock market offers so much more opportunity right now. Stocks are getting mispriced constantly. Fear, headlines, panic, creating the exact situations Buffett loves. But here's the challenge. How do you know when a stock is actually mispriced and worth buying versus just falling for a good reason?
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