alt Hacker NewsNot if private equity just snatches it all up.
Yes build more. Also regulate the oligarchs until they no longer exist.
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api • last Tuesday at 6:32 PM
PE buying real estate is a long bet on housing prices. If supply increases enough, prices flatten out and then fall, and the longs get crushed.
These investments are a bet on continuing to under-build and under-densify.
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> Not if private equity just snatches it all up
"As of December 2022, the five largest investors owned about 300,000 homes — just under 2% of single-family rental homes nationally."
Where institutions dominate is in rentals: "institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals in major markets" [1];.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/09/09/g-s1-87...