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Are Rental Homes the New Asset Class for Wall Street?

August 20, 2012 by Marco Santarelli

The wizards of wall street are back with a new twist.

Certain venture capital companies are promoting a “new” asset class to be sold as securities… single family rental homes!

Remember the last time Wall Street created a new asset class? That’s right, they packaged up single family mortgages and sold them as securities. And, we all know what happens when bad government policy and Wall Street financial experts conspire to take advantage of Main Street… don’t we?

Yes, you’re reading this correctly. Instead of packaging up and selling the underlying mortgage as a security, which led to the 2008 economic collapse, Wall Street is packaging up the rental home itself as a publicly traded REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust). Like a mutual fund, a REIT is a so-called “professionally managed” collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.

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Filed Under: Economy, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investments Tagged With: Asset Class, Real Estate Investing, Rental Homes, rental property, Wall Street

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