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Title: Real Estate Agent Exposes How Zillow Buys Up Houses To Inflate Prices...
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URL Source: http://www.stationgossip.com/2021/1 ... -agent-exposes-how-zillow.html
Published: Oct 3, 2021
Author: stafff
Post Date: 2021-10-03 11:20:20 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 1608
Comments: 10

As many are already intimately aware, the current U.S. housing market has become a complete nightmare circus with absurdly inflated house pricing, with desperate buyers offering huge amounts for the few on the market as sales close within days or even hours. Part of the problem, according to long-time real estate agent Sean Gotcher, is that a certain unnamed corporation that everyone assumes to be Zillow is buying up houses en masse and artificially inflating the value of these houses by purchasing the final one in an area at a higher price.

What this does is justify the selling of all of the houses in the batch at the inflated price, driving up housing costs for everyone else just trying to live a normal life and pretend we’re not in a crumbling capitalist dystopia.

@seangotcher

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“What if there was a company that everybody used, everybody used and everybody knew of to look for houses, and everybody goes on there and searches for houses when they’re bored and stuff,” says Gotcher. “And so that company, they just sit back and they just collect all the data. They just know what zip code is looking at what zip code and how much those people can afford.”

This data, according to Gotcher, is then used to pinpoint areas where plenty of people who can afford “a certain amount” are looking at houses so that the company can start buying up those houses — something much easier for a massive real estate corporation than for the rest of us. People are often willing to sell to companies like Zillow at a lower price than their house is worth because it’s such an easy process, while selling to another individual or couple can be a real hassle.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

“And let’s say that that company buys 30 homes within a two-mile radius, and let’s say the price is $300,000. So they buy all these homes for $300,000,” says Gotcher. “And then on the 31st home, they buy it for $340,000.” Because Zillow has enough money to be able to pay with cash in full, rather than getting a loan that requires an appraiser to actually determine the value of the house, they can buy that final home at whatever price they might want to offer. But why would they pay more for that last house than they have to? This is where you might start to get angry.

“Well, what that just did is create a new comp. So when they go to sell these other 30 homes, that extra $40,000, then you can say ‘this one sold for $340,000,’ just made them $1.2 million off that one neighbor, ’cause they know from their research how much people can afford in that zip code. Weird.”

That all happens before they go in and put on a quick layer of new paint and change the carpets and “call it a remodel” so that they can inflate the price of those houses by another $20,000.

After the video spread from TikTok to Twitter, the term “Zillow” was soon trending on the latter platform as many people compared them to Blackrock, another real estate company that was recently in the news for buying up mass amounts of homes. Blackrock, however, is reportedly collecting houses to rent rather than resell, making the argument that home ownership in over and everyone will soon be happy to rent, forever, gaining them accusations of trying to bring back feudalism.

This combined with Zillow “allegedly” driving up housing prices has led many to predict and imminent crash in the housing market similar to the one that preceded the Great Recession in 2008. Zillow has denied the allegations laid out in the TikTok video, because of course they have, but few are buying it. Possibly because they spent all their money on a house with a hyper-inflated price, we can’t say for sure.

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#2. To: Ada (#0)

I'm very skeptical.

Lod  posted on  2021-10-03   12:06:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pinguinite, BTP Holdings, Lod, Ada (#2)

I had a similar article last week. It was my opinion that Larry Fink, the CEO of Balckrock, who has $9 trillion in assets to manage, is using Zillow to buy real estate. He is also buying college dorms. Hyperinflation with near zero fixed interest rates will make any idiot with a trillion dollars to invest look like a genius as long as he is getting real assets.

Horse  posted on  2021-10-03   13:05:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Horse (#3)

Hyperinflation with near zero fixed interest rates will make any idiot with a trillion dollars to invest look like a genius as long as he is getting real assets.

In China the CCP owns all property. So Chinese come here to buy real estate.

I heard they own the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC. They plan to turn top 10 floors into Condos.

Who will buy those Condos now since the tax rates in New York are so high they have driven out people with money to more tax friendly locations such as Florida? ;)

BTP Holdings  posted on  2021-10-04   8:02:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)

Chinese nationals with their money in the Bahamas can live in Manhattan tax free except for the sales tax.

Horse  posted on  2021-10-04   10:38:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#9. To: Horse (#8)

Unless they're renting, I doubt that they are able to escape the various property taxes.

Lod  posted on  2021-10-04 10:49:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Horse (#8)

Chinese nationals with their money in the Bahamas can live in Manhattan tax free except for the sales tax.

That would seem to make sense.

But the IRS is up on all of the banking going on outside the country. And if you have an account anywhere except Switzerland, you can bet the IRS is going to have their fingers in the pie. ;)

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