Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything

Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by hunglee2 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:02AM (#45080997)

rental prices are driven by P/E redirecting funds to the purchase of housing stock, which they then use to jack up the rent. Fuedalism is returning by stealth.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by hdgvhicv on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:37AM (#45081523)

If there’s demand for 5 million units and supply of 6 million prices will go down as 1 million units will be empty

If there’s demand for 5 million units and supply of 4 million, prices will go up and 1 million will move out of the city

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by georgemcbay on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:55AM (#45082190)

You conveniently left out the part where many large corporate landlords collude by using software like RealPage to enable widescale price fixing.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by hdgvhicv on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:02AM (#45082524)

As do small landlords. they can only do this because supply is so constrained.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by beowulfey on Sunday August 31, 2025 @09:08AM (#45082880)

that is also assuming the demand is atomic when that isn't necessarily the case. A lot of that pooled demand can come from singular sources. in other words, not all demand is created equal

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ipaddr on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:55AM (#45084156)

In your first case they increase rent as a group and have 80+% occupancy.

In your second case they increase rent and people are forced into having roommates.

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