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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This article is titled "Wall Street Is Buying Starter Homes to Quietly Become America’s Landlord" and then the text of the article, focused on Phoenix, says:

"Most of the activity was driven by small landlords and home flippers"

bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Institutional investors prob own less than 500K single family rentals. While small time investors own something like 16M.
Investor purchased properties did make an all time high in Q4, but the trend has been modestly upward over time. And again, the vast majority of those purchases are not Wall Street.
This view contributed to the last bubble and I thought we had moved on from it
It is uncomfortable how much home prices have risen. So the search for narratives and scapegoats is on. First it was Zillow ibuying, which made no sense, it was a market maker. Now its institutional SFR, which is more plausible, but small investors remain a much larger force.

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Feb 11
Latest attempt at sizing the ad platforms*. These are my estimates and probably wrong. Posting Gross Profit $ first, because of different margin structures, and most people don't click to the second tweet in a thread, and I think GP$ are more important.

*ex TikTok
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Snapchat is the only platform that on current estimates will grow dollars added in 2022 vs 2021.
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Feb 11
Trying to make sense of this. In Feb 16, Zillow said they were involved in 3.1% of transaction sides in 2014 and 3.9% in 2015. Yesterday said were involved in 3% in 2021. So sides were down from 2015 to 2021 and PA revs as % of agent commissions generated are 33%, up from 10%. ImageImageImage
I don't know if its a different methodology or I'm doing something wrong. But now they are forecasting doubling transactions involved in to 6% by 2025. So would love to understand the trajectory from 2015 to now, to better handicap the likelihood of 2021 to 2025.
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fascinating thread on what *may* explain the huge gap between economic conditions and consumer confidence
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Jan 21
This Q reiterates the point. They beat estimates in the most competitive market, and they announced price increases, so idea that competition is the problem doesnt hold IMO.

The longstanding question remains, what level of subs can be gained in APAC/LATAM at what price point.
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“The final feature of the great superbubbles has been a sustained narrowing of the market and unique underperformance of speculative stocks, many of which fall as the blue chip market rises. This occurred in 1929, in 2000, and it is occurring now.“
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