Is Zillow really buying all the houses?
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 1:08.8 | Today explained, Rommas firm. Let me take you behind the scenes of the show for a minute. |
| 1:12.0 | Way back in May, we made an episode about the bonkers housing market. It was titled |
| 1:16.3 | the bonkers housing market. In it, we talked a bunch about the root causes of our bonkers |
| 1:21.7 | housing market. All over the country, houses are being sold at a higher rate than we've |
| 1:25.9 | seen in a long time, whether you're in suburban America, rural America, or urban America. |
| 1:30.2 | But when we published it, a bunch of people wrote to us on Twitter to be like, you missed |
| 1:33.8 | a huge driving factor here. Zillow. Zillow is buying up tons of real estate and ruining the |
| 1:41.2 | housing market. And I was like, oh no, we missed something big. I messaged today, explain |
| 1:45.7 | producer Miles Bryan. And was like, Miles, do we miss something big? And Miles was like, |
| 1:50.1 | nah, we didn't. I asked Bruce to let him about this. And she says it's way overblown. |
| 1:54.4 | And I was like, fuh. But the conspiracy theory didn't go away. My mom sends me housing market |
| 2:00.0 | memes about companies like Zillow buying up all the real estate in American cities there. |
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