progressive hunter
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If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund
Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices.www.wsj.com
"Private-equity firms with billions and yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family houses to rent out or flip. They are competing for houses with ordinary Americans, who are armed with the cheapest mortgage financing ever, and driving up home prices. “You now have permanent capital competing with a young couple trying to buy a house,” said John Burns, whose real estate consulting firm estimates that roughly one in every five houses sold is bought by someone who never moves in. “That’s going to make U.S. housing permanently more expensive,” he said."
If we have huge investment firms buying up homes at 50% over market value -- how can everyday middle-class home buyers compete with that??
One popular Conservative congresswoman (Marjorie Greene) said that will lead to a select few who will own and control everything and everyone else remaining poor and under control....
So is that socialism? Seems as tho she thinks so.....
Even tho she really just explained Capitalism......
this is crony capitalism not free market capitalism,, dont forget these companies are backed up by the fed res
What is free market capitalism??
I keep seeing people throwing the term free market around but not being able to tell me when this free market ever existed
one is government controlled and the other is not,,,
these companies are government controlled and why they are allowed to get away with it,,