A Potential Windfall for the Builders
If you’re a family that can no longer find an existing home because of the institutional feeding frenzy, and now suddenly find the competition has vanished, what do you do? Well, you might just decide to build one from scratch. And that, my friends, is where this gets interesting from an investment perspective. This policy could inadvertently funnel a huge wave of pent-up demand directly towards new construction.
Companies like DR Horton, America’s largest homebuilder, must be rubbing their hands with glee. Their entire business model is built around selling homes to individual buyers, not to some monolithic fund in New York. The logic seems straightforward. If a significant chunk of buyers, say 15 percent of the market, are suddenly locked out, that demand doesn't just evaporate into thin air. It has to go somewhere, and the most logical place is the forecourt of a new housing development.