Rental Property vs REIT in 2026: Which One Returns More?
Real estate is the asset class people love to argue about at dinner parties. Half the table swears by their duplex; the other half quietly buys index funds and lets the dividends drip. After fifteen years of owning rental property in two states and tracking REIT performance through three market cycles, the question I get asked most often is the same one you probably typed into a search bar: which one actually makes more money? ...