which is the best investment choice for 2019?

Bitcoin and buy-to-let. Investors in either asset could describe 2018 as being a year to best forget.

It’s been particularly bad for the cryptocurrency this year, its value diving by more than 80% from the record peaks of $19,345 hit almost exactly a year ago to current levels around $3,500.

Things haven’t been as catastrophic for buy-to-let participants this year, although a slew of further tax changes and the impact of deadening — or in the case of London, reversing — home price growth has hardly made the sector a bed of roses.

So what does the new year hold for both asset class, and which one would I rather hold as we enter 2019?

Buy-to-let

It’s often said that there’s no safer investment than in bricks and mortar, and in times gone by — well, certainly over the past quarter of a century — that was the case.

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