Comment by impossiblefork a day ago
No, it isn't.
1/3 of the houses bought in the US are bought by these kinds of organizations. Zoning might matter, but large capital owners are buying up a large fraction of the houses that are for sale and this is obviously driving up prices.
That is the same source as I read, but
>Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.
is, as I view things, what I said. You may say that individual real estate investors are not typically large capital owners, but that's a definitional thing, or a matter of assessment that isn't interesting to debate.
No matter how you choose to define it, investors buying homes are buying a substantial fraction of the homes on the market (1/3) and presumably have a substantial effect on prices.
"Definitional things" are often pretty important to productive discourse, and both of the recent comments you responded to with your assertion that "these kinds of organizations" are buying up 1/3rd of homes were clearly talking about large institutional investors, not some guy who owns a few rental homes.
I see this as making no difference to buyers.
It's entities bigger than them driving up prices. The adversarial situation might even be even more apparent with the guy buying up 'a few' rental homes.
You’re commenting on a story about how housing demand is cooling, so why are you talking about how investors are driving prices up? Especially when the institutional investors are selling more than they’re buying…
That's not true: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/home-sales-investors-make-up...
Excerpts:
Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.
Institutional investors are selling more homes than they buy and have been for six consecutive quarters.
While large institutional investors continue to get most of the headlines in the single-family rental space, small investors account for more than 90% of the market. These are individuals owning 10 properties or less. The largest investors, those with 1,000 or more properties, make up just 2% of all investor-owned homes.