Would you agree that it's better to invest in the local property market rather than in the stock market?

I think generally speaking the US stock market will be better! Stocks are liquid whereas property isn't. There are some other concerns such as regulation of housing prices in the local property market, and for the stock market, although some companies may be regulated as well, but there are more choices of companies to choose from.

Property wise if you are looking at renting out you will still have to find and manage tenants and that is pretty time consuming. Maintainence of property is an issue as well.

For stocks, there's nothing much to maintain other than looking at the quarterly reports and annual reports. The initial research phase is a bit more time consuming but if you are planning to hold long term and have high conviction for a company that is of a good quality, the maintainence of due diligence shouldn't be too time consuming relative to property.

Hope that helps!

You may wish to consider investing in property via Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). There are a few articles covering them here on Seedly and I wrote a brief introduction on it here.​​​