Stephen Findlay: Don't let economic gloom put clients off real estate

Despite the growth of the UK economy stalling in 2018 and the London (residential) property slump starting to reverberate outside of the capital, real estate remains an attractive proposition for investors and their advisers due to historical long-term growth - a return of 10.9% a year since the 1970s - and people seeing it as underpinned by ‘real bricks & mortar'. Changes to buy-to-let tax relief, coupled with rising house prices and the introduction of a stamp duty surcharge on second homes, mean buying a property to rent out is no longer a viable option for many. And, against this bac...