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Comment by class3shock

"Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/home-sales-investors-make-up...

As long as we have this focus on using homes as investment and rent prices are kept high through collusion, the industry refusing to build "non-luxury" units, and regulation hurdles stopping new entrants, we will be stuck with this problem.

parent class3shock 9 months ago

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