Wall Street Investors Buying Up Entire Neighborhoods In Poorer Areas

by JacobSloan on June 5, 2013 in News


Wall Street investment firms are eager to become your new landlord. New York Times Dealbook reports:

Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of the nation’s most depressed markets. The influx has been so great, and the resulting price gains so big, that ordinary buyers are feeling squeezed out. Nationwide, 68 percent of the damaged homes sold in April went to investors, and only 19 percent to first-time home buyers.

Wall Street played a central role in the last housing boom by supplying easy — and, in retrospect, risky — mortgage financing. Now, investment companies like the Blackstone Group have swooped in, buying thousands of houses in the same areas where the financial crisis hit hardest.

Blackstone, which helped define a period of Wall Street hyperwealth, has bought some 26,000 homes in nine states. Colony Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm, is spending $250 million each month and already owns 10,000 properties.

Big investors are now staking a claim to entire neighborhoods. With little fanfare, these and other financial companies have become significant landlords on Main Street.

Some know how to make it in this world.

If its Wall Street investment firms and the stock market, you can bet they are screwing someone, and the rich will get richer.

If I had the bucks to be a slum lord, bet yet *** I would

There will always be magots to feed on rotting flesh. Don't blame the flies, blame the cause of the injury.

Problem is, today, under our present corporatism/socialism they can quite often be one and the same. The Lords of the Flies

Creating another Bubble to profit from!