Capital growth - top reason for investing in property

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Recent research by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland, on buyer and seller behaviour, found capital growth was the top reason for buying an investment property in Queensland for 74 per cent of buyers.

The next most common reasons to buy investment property were to fund retirement, for negative gearing purposes, as a means of deriving an income stream, or because they believed it offered a better long-term return than shares or superannuation.