[citizen]

Why have so many investors decided to buy houses, as opposed to investing on Wall Street, or investing in any other assets?

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According to articles, it more the institutional investing funds, rather than individual investors, that are buying up housing offerings.

Buy, hold and sell high along the way or use as collateral on other ventures.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Buy and hold and sell high?

Sounds good, until/unless, the housing markets go into decline. In which case, one would hope those institutional investors are well enough diversified, so that a decline such as we saw starting in 2008 in housing won’t be a huge shock to their portfolios.