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Case study: Private equity’s buy-up of Michigan housing

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PESP in the News – May 2025

Press coverage of PESP’s Multi-Family Housing Tracker

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Aiming for double digit returns, private equity firms have at times led the market in rent increases and mortgage foreclosures.
Post crisis, private equity firms aggressively invested in all parts of the US housing market (and increasingly globally as well), buying apartment buildings, single family homes, manufactured housing communities and mortgages. Aiming for double digit returns, private equity firms have at times led the market in rent increases and mortgage foreclosures.
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