Everytime, I speak to an average property investor looking for investment opportunities, nine out of 10 chances are that he or she is in the market looking for residential options. Either it is a second home with scope for appreciation or it is an apartment with potential to rent. Sometimes it is just the neighbour’s flat two floors below! For some of these investors, this preference for residential property may be part of a well-thought out investment strategy but for most it just happens to be the default option. Why’s that? Largely because we all are comfortable dealing with residential real estate as an asset class. Typically , anyone looking to invest in another property would already own their present home and hence buying an investment with similar physical and commercial characteristics is just so much easier to deal with. It is a fact that buying an office space or a retail store would not even cross the minds of most such investors. In fact, why even bother? Well, th