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Tangible assets and wealth preservation strategies for discerning property investors.
Property and precious metals get grouped together as tangible assets, but they behave differently in the one respect that matters to an owner: how quickly and at what cost you can turn them back into money. Bullion trades continuously and settles in days; a house does not. That is the actual argument for holding some of both, and it is a liquidity argument rather than a returns one.
When comparing dealers, the number to look at is the spread - the gap between what they will sell you a given product for and what they will pay to buy the same product back. That round trip is the real cost of ownership, and it is often much wider on small or collectable pieces than on standard investment bars and coins. The second question is storage. Metal allocated to you means specific, identified pieces that remain yours if the custodian fails; unallocated means you are a creditor of the business holding it. Both are legitimate products, they are simply not the same product, and the difference only becomes visible in the situation you are insuring against.
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