Originally Posted by Megalania

There is generally a boom of one sort or another going on at all times. Put your money on coal miners shares last year and you'd now have 4 times your money. Put it on now, could later have 1/4 times your money.

When you think real estate looks good, buy some listed property shares with your super money? Vastly more liquid than the real real estate - buy in / sell out in minutes and no renovation.

But all that is play dough - money you have after investing sufficiently conservatively or diversely to be reasonably sure you have provided for your retirement.