Industry Spin

Who Benefits From the Financialization of Housing and Build-to-Rent?

There are countless real estate industry professionals and consultants floating ridiculous narratives regarding single-family rentals and build-to-rent. This is as good a time as any to debunk the "we're filling a need" nonsense. What we're really taking about here is the financialization of housing and the Cantillon Effect. If you are connected to the build-to-rent industry and collect a paycheck from the financialization of single-family housing, okay. No problem with that. Want to ignore the data and look the other way. No problem. It's easy to do. Just don't expect a thinking public with working [...]

Dallas Morning News Real Estate Desk Continues Comedy Of Errors

The Dallas housing market isn't dead, but real estate editor, Steve Brown, continues floating more comical real estate industry spin to minimize what's going on with the Dallas-Fort Worth housing market. Mr. Brown's latest article about overdone expectations caught my attention. He's right that the truth is usually not as bad as those screaming fire. The DFW housing market certainly isn't dead. As I have explained, it is just beginning to deflate. I'm not sure where Mr. Brown is getting his forecast for a 1 percent decline in home sales next year, but I certainly [...]

By |2018-12-05T12:42:09+00:00December 4th, 2018|Texas Real Estate|0 Comments
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