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Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by em-bee on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:01PM (#44555358)
the key word is manufacturing. the article is talking about buying homes, not building them. if all those people would invest into building new homes as opposed to buying existing ones then the comparison would make sense and maybe the price of homes would indeed go down.
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Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by appreciatorBus on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:27AM (#44559984)
Absolutely. I think one of the biggest problems in discourse around housing is this idea that housing “investment” can only ever about buying existing assets.
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