Why institutional investors will insulate DFW from a 2008-style housing crash


Institutional investors are buying up houses in neighborhoods across the country, including big numbers in Dallas-Fort Worth. While controversial, on the plus side, higher institutional ownership makes the housing market less prone to a crash compared to the market before the subprime loan default crisis, circa 2008, according to a UT-Dallas professor who studies such things.

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