Housing

By Eric Moore, Ph.D.
Over the past year, we’ve gone deep into the world of corporate landlords and their growing footprint in Mecklenburg County. And we now have a new method to track these elusive entities, uncovering approximately 145 corporate investors who own at least 15 single-family homes each.
It turns out these investors control nearly 7.5% of all single-family homes in the county, far more than you might expect. But this is just the beginning. In the third and final installment of the “Understanding corporate landlords” series, we explore the changing landscape of corporate home ownership […]

By Eric Moore, Ph.D.
Identifying corporate landlords, sometimes referred to as real estate investment trusts (REITs) or institutional investors, can be a complicated process. They can also have dozens of subsidiaries with unique names that mask the actual size of their portfolio. 

So, how can we differentiate between “independent operations”, individuals who own one or two properties often under Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), mom-and-pop investors, those who own between three and nine properties, and the more large-scale operations of corporate landlords? […]