New research has revealed that residential housing has been a “better investment than cash, shares or bonds” over the last ten years. The figures from Halifax showed that buy-to-let landlords could have made a profit of up to 187 per cent in the ten years up until December 2009, reports the Financial Times. http://www.houseladder.co.uk/Property_News/2010/02/Buytolet_market_better_investment_than_cash_shares_or_bonds_1914.aspx