What leverage to use for real estate investment? How?  

Hoe about starting with stocks and Unit trust...
I seems to be a good way to invest..

I agree with you that real estate has become very expensive that ordinary people cannot afford it. How I wish that I could be a good salesman of real estate but I don't have any experience. I want to invest also on real estate one of these days. The best thing to do I think is to be educated first about real estate. I think that one method of leverage is using other people's money! It might be helpful to read some real estate books!

Unfortunately, the word 'leverage' implies you have something of enough value to prop up your end of a deal in order to get a loan, or other subsidization. No doubt, real estate can be a very valuable asset. There are waterfront homes that were priced at $250k 2 years ago in my area. They are sitting empty now and priced around $100k. That is a lot of money. The real estate industry in much of the country has been placed on pause. Flipping houses has become extremely risky due to low volume in the housing market. That isn't to say that buying a home, remodeling, and living in it isn't a great investment. If your credit is good, and you can place a decent down payment it's wonderful to own a home. The whole time you live in the house you gain equity. If you're somewhat handy you can do a lot of renovations yourself. Just remember not to buy more home than you can afford, and always find a good realtor. Good Luck!

The depends on where you are in the world and what the local laws are but there are many different ways to raise the captial to buy real estate.

1. Banks- Banks are in the business of lending money. You will most likely need a deposit on the property if you go through the bank.
2. Governement - Depending on where you live some governments will assist in captial for housing projects, espcially if you design them to house families that do not have housing
3. You can work and buy a small place to rent out rooms and work your way to get larger.
4. You can creat a company and design a prospectus on a business property. Then hold seminars to sell portions of the company like stocks or bonds.
5. You can, although I STRONGLY don't agree with it, is borrow money from family or friends. You could loose that person as a friend!!!

As you can see there are many ways.

go over a list of foreclosed properties for auction.