Commercial real estate helps you to earn a tax efficient monthly rental income on your investment. It has been an age old tried and tested way to build capital while also serving as a security as a second household income securing your and the future of your loved once. Investing in commercial real estate is lucrative and serves as good hedge against the volatility of the stock market and other asset classes. Investors can make money via appreciation when they sell the property but most returns are generated through rents collected from tenants which are way higher as compared to the returns on renting residential properties. The reason why people started buying second or third residential properties was due to the constant rise in the residential property price which has flattened over the years.