Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford

Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by darth_avocado on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:10PM (#44555408)

If you want cash poor people to compete with cash rich private equity in the housing market without banning PE completely, you need to make it cheaper for cash poor people to borrow money. That too isn’t a particularly radical policy proposal. A lot of countries across the world do it with positive outcomes.

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Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by physicles on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:19PM (#44555471)

Didn’t we do that in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis? Remember NINJA loans?

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Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by 3rdDeviation on Sunday July 13, 2025 @11:06PM (#44556055)

You could go the other direction -increasing the borrowing cost of purchasing a home for investment to ensure that borrowers with less capital can still afford homes in the same market.

As a hypothetical, you could tax their purchase at the same rate at which they're borrowing and use the funds to back loan guarantees for new/lower income purchasers.

The point is to impair the ROI for multi-home purchasers without limiting upside in the market.

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Re:Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional bu... by darth_avocado on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:28PM (#44562024)

NINJA loans were loans for people with no income and no jobs. What I’m proposing is cheaper access to cash for first time homebuyers. You’d still have to be credit worthy.

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