Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

Why is property investment good if properties de-valuate over time?
Real estate is not a good investment.  In fact, it's easy to make a case for it being the worst possible investment imaginable: Imagine over a cup or coffee or a glass of wine we get to talking   about investments. Then maybe one of us, let’s say you, says: “Hey I’ve got an idea. We’re always talking about good investments.   What if we came up with the worst possible investment we can   construct? What might that look like?” Well, let’s see now (pulling out our lined yellow pad), let’s make a   list. To be really terrible: -- Why Your House Is A Terrible Investment There are plenty of good reasons to own a home, but the key word there is "home".  Owning housing as an investment property is a horrible idea, and anyone who does it, especially right now with as bubbly as the market is looking again, (or, better put, still, since the last bubble never did fully pop and clear out the underlying systemic instability,) is an idiot. And even after the current housing market bubble pops, it's likely to remain a bad idea for decades.  We're never getting the early 2000s back, for basic supply-and-demand reasons: with the Baby Boom generation retiring, aging and dying off, they're not likely to do much more home-buying, and no generation after them is as big as they are, which means a glut of oversupply and weak demand for the entirety of the foreseeable future.