The article states it comes from real-estate. That implies some amount of buying and selling. Unless they just happened to have a single 5M mansion sitting around.

Speaking as a millennial, you don't just "get into real estate", usually it's seeded by a large amount of generational wealth/inheritance.

Someone struggling to put a deposit together for their own home isn't going to make bank out of flipping houses and contributing to the shit housing sector. It really is true that all it takes to make money is money, it's almost effortless.

I mean, from like 30 years ago until now, anyone that ‘got into real estate’ at any point during that period would have been wildly successful.

Though I guess that kind of undermines my initial idea that you needed to have a brain for it.

Or not deceased