Posted on 08/09/2025 1:02:04 PM PDT by Red6
Background: There are forces that create major shifts, and in the last years there has been a lot of talk about how "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy
That is what I am seeing in the real estate sector.
Does anybody have any solid sources on the topic that puts things together (an analytical piece that shows where policy changes are driving what is happening), concerning who actually owns the real estate in the US?
It appears, but I have no solid sources, that real estate is getting bought up by commercial investors, and often is longer for sale, but rather becomes rental property, and this may be the result of national level policy changes post 2008 which favor this.
Anyone have any information?
Not sure how/where to post this, if it needs to be somewhere else, please move it.
If the home is newer, of course you are correct. But the initial price will reflect that. I swear that of all the listings I see, none look as though they would cash flow very well as rentals, one way or another.
“I don’t think people are gonna be wanting $4 million for their houses.”
In places like Argentina and Lebanon, history shows that houses simply get pulled off the open market.
Medical science is just getting warmed up. If people start living to 200 or over, it will be like bitcoin. A house will be worth $40 billion.
Blackrock, Orchid Island, mortgage backed REIT’s. Wanna make money in real estate? Buy FNMA before the IPO.
“I just saw someone with a portable barbecue. They pushed it in front of their house with a for sale sign and they wanted $2100. I would probably pay less than 100 for it. “
A photo or it doesn’t exist.
Where I lived houses sold in less than an hour.
Where my brother lives nearly every house was bought by Airbnb investors.
Owning a home is impossible for most people now. I earn a good wage but there is nothing affordable. Even at mod six figures.
“You’ll own nothing and like it.”
bro! I took a photo!!!! How do I post a photo????
“Even 25+ years ago, I would advise most friends and peers who were ambivalent about home ownership that it didn’t make sense to own a home unless one or both of the following were applicable: (1) they had children in the public school system, and/or (2) they ran a business out of the home.”
Rent and you are paying off someone else’s mortgage.
Own, and you are paying off your own mortgage plus getting the appreciation.
I might add, give thanks to God too.
See FRmail
“this would stop the trend started in 2008 of foreclosing but not letting the homes hit the markets”
It would be stupid for a bank to have sold a house with a $90,000 mortgage for $50,000 in 2010 when the bank can pay depositors 1% and get $95,000 a few years later.
One woman on my street had a boyfriend who bought a house on a double lot for ~$50,000 circa 1998. She quit paying the mortgage circa 2010 and lived in the house for years. Some Polish guy bought the property about five years ago off the bank for $210,000 and he has built a mansion that looks like a car dealer’s building on the property.
New Jersey, New England, New York, New Baltimore, New London, New Hope,...
People in the past founded new communities.
Form new companies and go from there.
“The radio talk show real estate and financial advisor Bruce Williams always said that your house should be your home, and not your “investment””
Your best and worst investment might be a marriage.
the neoCON free traitor scum will be along shortly to scream “muh free markets!” Screw American 20 somethings! They need to earn their way! If the chinese want to buy up all our land it’s “muh free markets!” If corporations want to buy up entire subdivisions it’s “muh corporation!”
“Medical science is just getting warmed up. If people start living to 200 or over, it will be like bitcoin. A house will be worth $40 billion.”
John Lennon bought a mansion in Weybridge, Surrey for 21,000 pounds in the mid-1960s. About ten years ago 8 million pounds were being asked for the mansion.
Old geezers like me think paper money won’t hold buying power.
That’s why I’ll be collecting mail out front when I look like Yoda.
Leading governments have a 60-year track record of cheating paper money holders. I never bet against government power.
Our dollar is becoming like the Italian lira.
well, it’s like the folks who maintain castles in Europe. Maybe a couple, and they buy an old castle and they fix it up and they live there and it’s just always a nightmare. They live in one or two rooms because it’s too expensive to heat an entire castle. I’m saying that this fellow should sell his house and maybe go to the villages in Florida and he can get a little golf cart and drive around and have his pic of the 120-year-old ladies. I’m trying to help him. Oh yeah, and then he can also sell his house.
Information on home ownership:
https://www.blackstone.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Blackstone-Single-Family-Rental-Fact-Sheet.pdf
https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/primer-institutional-investors-arent-ruining-the-housing-market/
https://nlihc.org/resource/gao-releases-report-institutional-investments-single-family-rental-housing
https://sunrisecapitalgroup.com/who-owns-americas-housing-market-a-look-at-single-family-and-multifamily-landlords/
Prime London sits on a few square miles of land.
Most people have no idea what a community could be like.
Check out what Crystal Lagoons can do.
thank you, brother
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