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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by dragonwriter on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:39PM (#28578295)
> That's not the economic definition of rent seeking.

It is. In fact, the general economic concept of rent and rent-seeking are generalizations of the inherent features of real property rents, which are the source of the name.

(EDIT: Fixed egregious touch keyboard vomit, clarified “land” to “real property”.)

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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by klipt on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:43PM (#28578322)
If you want to collect land rents you would buy assets that are mostly land, e.g. empty lots, or even single family houses, not apartment blocks where you're paying more for the building than the land.
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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by heavyset_go on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:03PM (#28578842)
Just FYI, it looks like you might have a typo in your post. I usually enjoy your posts and think they're well thought out, so I felt the need to point this out.
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