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UK investors will benefit when REITs are introduced, but in the meantime they can get some of these advantages by investing in offshore commercial property vehicles

These days we are increasingly bombarded with advertisements trying to persuade us to part with our cash for the latest equity based product. Indeed, an ever expanding product range can at times be just as much of a hindrance as a help for any investor wishing to invest in the stock market. An alternative to equities is commercial property, which has outperformed UK equities over one, three, five and ten years to the end of 2004. It has the potential to produce a relatively stable income return of around 6%, which suggests that commercial property is worth considering when formulating an i...