[PAR35]

It appears, but I have no solid sources, that real estate is getting bought up by commercial investors

There's plenty of solid evidence out there. The international banksters in New York are behind it. Blackstone owns billions of dollars worth of residential property. Third largest owner of residential property in the US; they bought (or are buying) a competitor for $3.5 billion. They bought another competitor for $10 billion. Pocket change for them. Here's one story https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/blackstone-is-buying-rental-homes-again-heres-why.html

A report from early last year says that 32 "institutional investors" owned 450,000 single family homes. The number has gone up since then. Pretium owned 97,000 single family homes as of early this year.

[Silentgypsy]

A couple of years ago, I read (maybe in Forbes?) that BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. have been buying individual properties and entire blocks with the intent of turning them into rentals.

[Alberta's Child]

And yet there was an article posted here on FR a couple of months ago about one of those companies — maybe Blackstone? — selling off thousands of residential properties from their portfolio.

I said at the time that this didn’t surprise me. I have said for years that a detached single-family home is a terrible real estate asset for most investors.

[Silentgypsy]

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