The next study below from Cambridge associates looked at 942 funds from 1986-2016 data and showed around 3.9% outperformance of equity REITs over private real estate with median leverage between 54%-60% so not as high as individual house flippers but still with significant leverage:There are many other studies in US and also by EPRA out of Europe in developed countries as well as many academic studies, https://www.nareitphotolibrary.com/m/750b587aba063147/origin...and they mostly all agree that on the whole, on average, for the Average investor, that private Real Estate investing is statistically worse than stock market in US by about 2% and worse than buying equity REITs by around 4%, over last 20/30/50 years. 

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