As the AL blog writes in its latest monthly note, "the national index fell by 0.7 percent over the course of October, marking the second straight month-over-month decline, and the largest single month dip in the history of our index, going back to 2017."

How does investing in real estate compare to the passive income investments such as index funds compare?

The Bubble is Building or Has Already Built United States S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index Notes The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index measures changes in residential house prices in 20 metropolitan regions in the United States: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington D.C. 

I can run a report showing a home value index down to the zip code or even neighborhood. 

The 5-year Treasury-indexed adjustable-rate mortgage averaged 2.83%, up three basis points from the previous week.

Those might get indexed faster by search engines.

In an active investment, boots on the ground are critical and you want concentration where you have a strategic advantage, which is usually your backyard ... if you want to diversify, then buy a passive investment like a REIT or S&P500 index fund and be done with it.2: 6-8% has been the long run average appreciation rate over the last 40+ years, and for almost that entire time it has looked expensive compared to other markets if going on price alone and people have been saying it won't keep going ... ask some old timers and look at the historic data if you don't believe me ... if you are talking about just this cycle, you may be right, but if you are talking long term, which is where your head should be IMO if you are getting into buy and hold REI, then I think the underlying supply and demand fundamentals are solid.

We save between 50-60% of our salary each year, and are working towards becoming financial independent through index investing in 10 years.  

The yield on 10 yr Treasury went from 1.77% to 2.43% (which is what its at right now), and the S&P index jumped about 6%.

Just wanted to share a quick find from NYT today:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/upshot/how-tale...It's from Robert Shiller (As in the Shiller Index), a very famous economist focusing on housing pricing, and the focus is on flipping contributed to the crash.