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The price of home ownership is only increasing while wages remain the same meanwhile cooperation like Black Stone quietly buys property utilizing strategies with institutional Financial Leverage such as BRRR( Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance)
For Example
Lets say You move a small town where every house is 100k
The Neighborhood is great and the property increases 10% Annually
You have 100,000$ In Cash you purchase a property wait a year and sell for 110,000$
Then you get a new idea
Taking 100,000$ from the house sale use it as five $20,000 dollar down payments on five houses wait a year 10% property value
increase you could get a 50% return on investment with the total debt of $400k-$550k Property Value equals Gross Profit of 50,000$
(Obviously in the real real this isn't that easy you understand the concept) The main issue is if the property value doesn't increase or housing market cash you lose all your money it a High Risk maneuver
In George Soros 1987 The Alchemy of Finance he introduces The Theory of Reflexivity The consist variable is the changing of house prices.
However Lets say an Institution like Black Stone buys 100 of these neighborhood houses you can negate the asymmetrical risk you would not only increase the property value through such accumulation and gain the power to manipulate local house prices.
You could utilize this little trick called Dividend Recap in which you create a shadow LLC and sell the houses to yourself far below market value wrecking the nearby houses market appraisal destroy your competition you could then buy the remaining houses at a lower price and rent them at a higher price creating a a housing shortage then inflate the value when you need to sell. This exactly what Black Stone did after the 2008 Housing Crisis.
Watch this Interview of a famous and disgraced financer if you want to gain a better understanding of the 2008 housing Crisis and modern economics
or watch the documentary Inside Job
Now you should understand why the housing market is so fried.