Big-dollar investors squeeze into San Antonio s tight housing market
Richard Webner, Contributor
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Out-of-town real estate investment firms, some of them backed by large institutional investors, are snapping up houses across San Antonio to rent or sometimes flip. These firms have acquired multiple properties on the same block on this street, Forest Canyon, in the Canyon Crossing neighborhood.Billy Calzada /Staff Photographer
In 2019, Lennar Homes of Texas finished construction of Escondido North, a subdivision of 334 one- and two-story homes packed onto thin lots in one of the few remaining wedges of undeveloped land within Loop 1604 in Converse.
By the end of the year, all the Northeast Side homes had been sold and it’s easy to see why.
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Out-of-state corporate landlords are gobbling up Milwaukee homes to rent out, and it s changing the fabric of some neighborhoods
Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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3:33 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021
Angela Peterson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Meet the new breed of landlord invading Milwaukee:
A couple of former Silicon Valley executives who were crewmates on the Harvard rowing team; a fast-growing Ohio company that owns more than 13,000 rental homes in 14 states; a native of Peru who has run real estate companies in Houston and Palm Beach, Fla.; and a southern California woman who was looking for a place to park her cash windfall.