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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:27AM (#46537540)
One of these things precedes the other in time, however, which may be significant.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by aoeusnth1 on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:26AM (#46550994)
But not in the causal chain. The building happened because someone was willing to pay for a fungible asset. An asset is only fungible if there are buyers.
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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:58AM (#46555203)
> The building happened because someone was willing to pay for a fungible asset.

Building often happens because a developer believes someone will buy the homes they build. A lot of the time, they are right; some of the time they are wrong. Some developers will get buyers lined up first, to minimize the risks of being wrong; many do not. In the latter case, there's no inherent connection between the building and subsequent buyers.

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