Real estate has long been considered a cornerstone of wealth-building and financial stability. However, directly investing in property can be capital-intensive, time-consuming, and fraught with challenges.

You’ve always been interested in real estate. You’ve never met an open house you didn’t want to tour, even if you weren’t planning to move. You’re always streaming one of those house-hunting or house-flipping shows,

(Reuters) -Alternative asset manager Apollo Global Management will buy real estate firm Bridge Investment Group for about $1.5 billion in an all-stock deal, expanding its real estate offerings. Bridge stockholders and unit holders of its subsidiary will each receive 0.

The deal for Bridge Investment Group will push Apollo’s real-estate assets under management to more than $110 billion.