Stocks may be next big thing for investors in years ahead

Returns from equities may outstrip gains from real estate transactions

The Chinese stock market may outperform the housing market in the next decade, reversing the trend seen in the previous decade, economists said.

Discussions on whether investors should "sell housing to buy stocks" have spread across domestic media recently. This asset allocation strategy, however, has proven to be unsuccessful in the world's second-largest economy over the past decade.