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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

''Chris Whalen's reality check: So-called housing recovery is investor driven''

From Housing Wire

''The problem, he says, is the force behind the recovery — namely investors who are snapping up single-family homes to turn them into rentals — does not alone signify a recovery. 

"While a number of exuberant private equity funds have been soaking up the excess supply of housing in markets such as Arizona, Florida and California ... the supply of qualified individuals with the capacity to buy and actually occupy a home has fallen dramatically," Whalen wrote.''

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