How housing became the world’s biggest asset class

Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class by aianus on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:51PM (#22122936)

> difficulty of scale, which prevents the Blackrocks of the world from just buying up all of the property that could actually return 20% and making the market efficient

What exactly is stopping House Flipping BigCo from doing what you're proposing at scale?

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Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class by opportune on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @08:49PM (#22124083)

Housing asset management only scales linearly because you need several people to physically inspect/validate each property before purchase to make sure there are no serious issues.

Also you need to assess the rental conditions for each property on a case by case basis, and contract everything out to property management.

A lot of REITs invest in medium-large sized complexes to avoid the potential headaches. I’ve lived in a few of these and found them to be quite well managed.

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