Comment by throwaway2037

    > because their properties get leveraged, instrumentalized, and securitized, with derivative products, speculation, and all sorts of incentives that you don't normally want operating in the arena of housing.

I assume that you are already aware that regular home buyers use debt, and, thus lots(!) of leverage to buy their homes. The average down payment for first time buyers in the US is about 10%. That is a lot of leverage! Probably much more than corporate buyers of residential homes.

    > instrumentalized

What does this term mean? I have never seen it before. My spell checker does recognize it as a word.

    > securitized

Regular home buyers almost always enter into borrowing agreements with their bank that fit loan buying programmes with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This allows for most of these loans to be securitized into MBS.

    > with derivative products

Can you give an example scenario / product? Else, this feels like handwaving. CDS on MBS is an absolutely tiny market these days.

    > speculation

There is already plenty of speculation from regular home buyers in the US. Do you have any suggestions to reduce the existing speculation by these regular buyers?