The equivalent in real estate is a real estate investment fund.

I am willing to offer her a loan with a down payment equivalent to 18.75% of the agreed price, allowing her to hold onto more of her cash, but ultimately she will pay more for the house.

(Unless you can get non-recourse loans on investment properties, in which case each property essentially becomes equivalent to buying a call option on it.)

If you bought that dividend paying stock, you would need to collect dividends for X-months before you had received payback equivalent to your initial investment.  

It's the moral equivalent of pesticide and mouse traps.

"A government trying to tax and spend its way to prosperity is equivalent to a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

Being intelligent and enlisted can be a very frustrating experience.A four year college degree is the equivalent of a high school diploma pre-1990.

We undoubtedly using the same methods as to your country, it is only the metrics that are differ but the value is the sameHere in South Africa it is 2.4mWhich is equivalent to 8 feet 

If you have no 401k (or equivalent ) at your w-2 job maybe someone else has some ideas on what to do.

This frequently is termed subjective value and includes valuation of amenities which attach to a property or a determination of value for a specified purpose or for a specific person.Market value, which represents the amount in money (cash or the equivalent) for which a property can be sold or exchanged in prevailing market conditions at a given time or place as a result of market balancing.