If we treat stocks like how we treat our properties, maybe the average person would get better investment returns. Instead, most people buy stocks on rumours and speculation instead of real analysis. Here are a few things you should do before you buy a property or invest in a stock. 1. Do Your Analysis Before you bought a new home, you would survey the floorplan, you would check out the neighbourhood, you would check if it is near parks, schools, food courts, bus stops, train stations, etc.. Do you ever just buy a house simply because you overheard a conversation from the kopitiam table next to you that the property is going to go up in value in the next 6 months? You wouldn't! You would do some research on that said property. You would compare the prices of the property you are thinking of buying against the prices of properties in the same neighbourhood. Do...