Talk Your Book: Can Anything Slow Down the Housing Market?

Today’s Talk Your Book is presented by Fundrise:

We had Ben Miller, co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, back on the show to discuss the housing market.

We discuss:

• How big is the housing rental market?
• Where are institutional investors buying the most houses?
• How important are interest rates to rental house investments?
• Why is it so difficult to build new houses?
• How supply chain issues are impacting housing construction
• What would cause mortgage rates to rise substantially?
• Inflation in rents
• Why hasn’t technology innovated realtor margins away?
• Why real estate is an asset class somewhere between stocks and bonds
• The different types of investments you can make in real estate
• Why diversification is so important when investing in real estate
• What would it take to go bearish on real estate?

Listen here:

Links:

• Single-family rentals explained
• Southern cities account for two-thirds of urban population growth in the US

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