Who wants to be a landlord? Turns out, a lot of people. Private equity, hedge funds and other investors have been raising and setting aside money – as much as $8bn by some estimates – to scoop up individual US homes at low prices and rent them. Last week, Silver Bay Realty Trust, a property investment trust focused exclusively on single-family rentals, was listed. Apartment buildings have already been the purview of institutional investors and real estate investment trusts, but renting individual homes has traditionally been left to the locals.
誰想當房東?很多人。私募股權、對沖基金和其他投資者已籌措并劃撥資金(據估計高達80億美元),到美國抄底購買獨立屋并將其出租。專注于單戶家庭住宅出租的房地產投資信托基金Silver Bay Realty Trust,上周掛牌上市。公寓樓已經是機構投資者和房地產投資基金的投資對象,但是獨立屋的出租業務傳統上是留給當地人的。