Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.
That’s closer to trying to ban speculative investment. I guess my opinion on this is just that this type of approach won’t work as well, because keeping people from participating in the market isn’t a direct way to move the market. And what needs to happen is, lower housing prices and regular people having greater proportional purchasing power, so the best focus would be to give investors strong incentives to sell, increase supply, and redistribute wealth, in a way that’s easy to enforce.
It’s impossible to prevent anything of significant value that can be owned from becoming a “financial vehicle” to some extent. This is idealism with no practical application.
That’s closer to trying to ban speculative investment. I guess my opinion on this is just that this type of approach won’t work as well, because keeping people from participating in the market isn’t a direct way to move the market. And what needs to happen is, lower housing prices and regular people having greater proportional purchasing power, so the best focus would be to give investors strong incentives to sell, increase supply, and redistribute wealth, in a way that’s easy to enforce.
Houses should be for living in, not financial vehicles.
I’m not exactly arguing against that, I am suggesting taking steps to tank their price and discourage using them as a store of wealth.
It’s impossible to prevent anything of significant value that can be owned from becoming a “financial vehicle” to some extent. This is idealism with no practical application.