{"id":47,"date":"2026-09-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/homesbyericanicolai-com\/2026\/09\/25\/americas-top-long-term-investment-pick\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:00:00","slug":"americas-top-long-term-investment-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/25\/americas-top-long-term-investment-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Top Long-Term Investment Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/erica-nicolai\/americas-favorite-investment-remotion-videos-a22b\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>In a recent US poll on best long-term investments, Real Estate led at 38%, ahead of stocks or mutual funds at 20%.<br \/>\nGold followed at 18%, while savings accounts or CDs drew 12%, bonds 4%, and cryptocurrency 2%, showing Americans still value familiar assets.<br \/>\nExperts said the results reflect trust and familiarity: homes feel stable, and Real Estate is the investment many Americans understand most clearly.<br \/>\nFor many households, a home works like a savings tool: mortgage payments build equity over time, while gradual appreciation has supported long-term wealth building.<br \/>\nExperts said long-term investing works best without either-or choices: gold can diversify, while savings accounts and CDs near ~4% mostly keep pace with inflation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent US poll on best long-term investments, Real Estate led at 38%, ahead of stocks or mutual funds at 20%. Gold followed at 18%, while savings accounts or CDs drew 12%, bonds 4%, and cryptocurrency 2%, showing Americans still value familiar assets. Experts said the results reflect trust and familiarity: homes feel stable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesbyericanicolai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}