$150,000.00 cash to invest Property or Silver

W4L, I am looking at gold, rather. Not investment but as protection.
2.5 ounce per purchase will keep you under $5k for regestration for ID.
Only drawback is many trips to accomulate $150K in phisical gold…

OT, I like now we get taxed on inflation…  AU prints money at 7% /year. 1.5% population growth = 5.5% inflation created.
Bakn gives you 6%, out of which you get taxed over 40%. So in real term you LOSSE at the rate of 1.5% / year ((

Silver will give u much higher percentage returns in the short term, silver is being used much quicker than it is being mined. It won’t be all that long before there is a huge jump in the silver price. Just check out the gold- silve price ratio and see what it’s average has been over time. Problem is you are then stuck with only 150k appreciating. That same 150k could get u 2 400k places that might cost you 150 a week to hold.
So say 800k at 8% = approx 63k p.a growth. So silver would need to appreciate at approx 40% pa over the next 12 months to beat property.
I would probably be buyin property with your cash, however maybe a smsf full of silver might be a good idea, as silver is going to go up, just when is a bit unpredictable.
Anyways, my opinion only! Cheers, let us know what u end up choosing mate

Love to hear some first hand stories, especially from those who lived long enough to accumulate long trend knowledge.
I guess, one can reason that gold/silver investment can be no different to property investing as it comes in cycles….

last time i checked silver and gold dont pay dividends… personally gold and silver is the oil of 2007 in terms of bubble. If you dont have a position on now I wouldnt want to be buying big $ worth at the top

what?… im looking to property atm, im long gold currently from 1070 dollar mark, ive traded professionally for a few years now and imo, gold and silver are not at the right point in their 'cycle' to begin building up a position. Then again gold and silver could go to $10,000 but your still getting a terrible price atm… the only way you could play it is wait for a dip to buy and hold yourself to a price to get out at. Too many perma bulls in 'precious' metals and alot of people storing the physical stuff will be getting burnt I feel.

Too many people with mantras such as "it must go up" with no view of any possible downside. Id love to see the gold and silver market when the Fed star raising rates again. It is generally said anything that doest pay an income (dividend/rent) is speculation as opposed to an investment… plenty of other markets, world regions at the lows of their cycles, imo no need to chase a market well on its way in a self reinforcing reflexive bull run. Theres always new markets, no need to be a sheep.

Like anything its a matter of timing. For instance .. my current invest is back in the US where prices have gone too cheap and i'm buying big. I've got the 15-20 years to wait and i'm not dependant on any income from them or debt payment. So its for me all an upside.

From having invested in both silver and gold when they were cheap to now .. i'm one of those people who says to ignore the sheep when they are flocking and work against the sheep market. Usually the sheep can turn on you when u least expect it.

Buy in markets where there are undervalued commodities or appropriately valued commodities. I think gold and silver are both rough standards to work with as the major demands for both (currency, jewellery, photography and computers) have softened as people buy the hard metal. In a good market in good times .. they would be worth substantially less. The major pressure on gold and silver now is the revaluation of a depreciated dollar. If you check across most metals markets the values for most metals have gone up at a minimum percentile level relative to the US dollar. Since traded goods are based on a US currency exchange at the moment … it doesnt mean they are all appreciating in demand. This is the casual observers first mistake.

If the people arent getting a good dollar for GREAT property in good locations. (the major rules still apply in any property market). I keep seeing the doomsayers bagging the property market as either too volatile or too dangerous. Its a market and as such there are always deals to be made.