Duplex Vs Single Family

[Deepak Arora]

Hello Fellow BPers,

Just wanted to get everyone's opinion on this topic:

Which one do you think would be more highly priced in the same area and with similar square footage, a Single-family or a Duplex?

[Howard Chen]

I believe a duplex is worth more to an investor, because when all things are equal between the duplex and the SFH, the duplex generates 2 streams of income, instead of one, that's an extra door of income to cover partially for when the other is vacant. When a SFH goes vacant, that's it, no alternate stream of income to cover part of the vacancy.