re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did we not once have legislation to prevent investment banks from getting involved in this market?

Aren’t the numbers a drop in a swimming pool?
Annual single family home sales are in the mid 7 figure range. The top five companies are buying ~ 25k houses per year combined. That’s a rounding error. There are many factors for the supply imbalance in housing, but I doubt that PE companies buying up houses makes it into the top 10.