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Is Your Home an Investment - Or Just a Place to Live?

There's a belief that's almost a religion to some people: buy a home, hold onto it, pay off the mortgage, and you're financially sorted.

More often than not, it's not true. And if you let that belief guide you, you could miss real opportunities for building wealth, because you feel like you're ahead when you're actually not.

Janika ter Ellen knows this better than most. She's a property reporter for Stuff, covering these issues every day.

So when she finally sat down and ran the actual numbers on her own home, what she found surprised her, and not in a good way.

Turns out there are hidden…

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