Why is relative performance vital when tracking your assets?

[Nicholas Wallwork]

In a perfect world we would all investment in property, the value would go up each year and everybody would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, the real world is very different to the one we would all like to live in and while there are many different ways to track the performance of your property

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Any investment performance should be measured in relative terms against the general market or a specific asset type. It is also vital that you do not look at investment performance over a short period instead looking at things on a long-term basis. If you were to react to every short-term movement in performance this would cost you a fortune in transaction costs alone!