Sq 17 said:
Investors gobbling up single family housing is possibly one of the most difficult to understand and underreported/ignored stories of the last decade.
Yes it's happening yes it's affecting local markets to varying degrees but IMO hard to find accurate reliable numbers because most Eveybody is cherry picking not just lying about data to make their point
What happened in DC was investors buying single family row homes and converting them into multiple units. They would take a 3,000 square foot home that would be perfect for a family and turn it into 3 separate 1,000 square foot units. And sell those units for over $1M each.
Yes, you heard that right. You can live in 1/3rd of a row home for $1M. If you were lucky you could get the basement unit with 6 foot ceilings and no windows for $900K.
Virtually impossible to buy a single family home in DC unless you were extremely wealthy.