Zillo has gotten completely out of the home buying and selling and eye buying business. Large investors, those who retained more than a hundred homes, remain steady at around 12%. And that's 12 % of all investment, of all home buying rates. All told, though, with these eye buyers and institutional investors entering the market, maybe for the first time, maybe in a way we've never seen before, are they driving up prices?
No. Vox's Jerusalem Demsas disproves a popular internet conspiracy theory.
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