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Re:The Hot Property That’s Next on Tech’s Agenda: Real Estate by alexgmcm on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:18AM (#18092725)
Traditionally those letting houses owned the houses outright - the mortgage was paid off.

"Buy-to-let" has changed this but perhaps that is not a good model.

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Re:The Hot Property That’s Next on Tech’s Agenda: Real Estate by ghaff on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:25AM (#18093095)
>Traditionally those letting houses owned the houses outright - the mortgage was paid off.

So, in other words, they have a bunch of money invested in an asset that, if they sold it, could otherwise be earning some rate of return in some other investment.

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