You won’t beat property money makes money if you’ve got capital to invest you buy a property do it up and mortgage it for 6 months and then sell you’ll very rarely fail,I know this from the other side of the family that have done this countless times and still do it today.
Someone once said to me when I was about 16 you’ll never lose with bricks and mortar long term and he was right,I’ve bought and sold over the years and pardon the pun moved up the ladder,you lose with property if you can’t afford to sit on a particular property until the market changes.