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Comment by chucksta

2 days ago

The title of the article - "3 companies own nearly 38,000 metro Atlanta homes"

Metro Atlanta has a population of 6 mil, say 2/3 live in detached homes with 2 persons per home. So that's 38,000 out of 2 mil homes, so about 2%

There are well over a million homes in the metro Atlanta area. If the top three owners have less than 4% of a market, need if they act in a completely coordinated manner they have approximately zero market power.

  • Yes if the market is for rice, but illiquid assets are an entirely different market which can be crazy warped by a few important participants.

    • How so, could you explain that a bit? I could see them causing a price dip or spike in purchase prices if they bought or sold all at the same time, but that would affect their own prices that they pay or receive, right? What is the market manipulation with 4% of housing stock?

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