"… 47% of purchases involving 1, 2, 3 or 4-family homes in Newark…
were by institutional investors,
typically limited liability companies…"
Corporate home buyers raising rents and prices in Newark, report says; city vows action,
NJ.com
"Invitation Homes Inc.… traded on the New York Stock Exchange,
acquires, renovates and rents out single-family homes…
[and] has accumulated more than 80,000 properties nationwide…"
These 12 secret power players are shaping the Bay Area housing market,
San Francisco Chronicle
"… leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing…
The company had been seeking occupancy levels of 97% or 98%…
[then] “began utilizing RealPage to operate at 95%, while seeing revenue increases of 3% to 4%.”"
How a Secret Rent Algorithm Pushes Rents Higher,
Pro Publica
"… 10% of U.K. landlords surveyed responded that
they are considering moving their private rented properties to the short-term market…
If every landlord in that 10% does move their properties…
up to an estimated 470,000 properties would be removed from the private rented housing supply
— around 8.7% of the entire U.K. rented sector stock."
The Airbnb Effect On Housing And Rent,
Forbes (no comparable insight from USA available)