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Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M by 1B05H1N on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:18PM (#30724893)
How much money did this cost everyone else?
Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M by titanomachy on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:23PM (#30725711)
I think that "everyone else" actually made money from this. Zillow overpaid for houses and then was forced to sell them for the actual market value, so this $881M was basically free money given directly to the people Zillow bought from.
Re:How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881M by maldeh on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:10PM (#30725576)
Likely some stressed out buyers paid for overpriced homes given the sharply rising prices across the market (although completely by their choice), and the sellers probably loved it - but that's already par for the course with the housing market at the moment. Zillow probably didn't help but isn't the sole contributor by any means.