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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by phkahler on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:18AM (#46541236)
>> You're telling a just-so story, and you can tell because there isn't a simple schematic 1-2-3 story you can make from this about how these people exert control over home prices.

We don't need to explain how they do it. We KNOW private equity is expecting to make profit from their investment in residential real estate. That profit ultimately comes from people in houses, making them less affordable.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by skeeter2020 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:47PM (#46544039)
>> We don't need to explain how they do it

We most certainly do. PE owns pools of rental housing; this is a fundamentally different model from speculation. While both impact the selling price they do it in completely different ways, and if institutional investors own a tiny fraction of the total stock, they're not having a huge impact on the supply side which would potentially drive up prices.

You're supposed "logic" seems comparable to magic.

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