Regulatory changes and rising interest rates have squeezed rental yields, leaving investors to wonder: Is the buy-to-let dream over? And in today’s Dumb Question of the Week: Does real estate outperform the stock market over the long-term?

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Selected links

• Monthly Lettings Index (Hamptons)
• Mortgaged landlords face falling profits and refinancing hurdles (FT)
• Why Britain’s buy-to-let dream is dying (The Telegraph)
• The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015

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