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US apartments were supposed to be an ironclad investment, with potential for double-digit returns as the housing shortage propels rents ever higher. Instead, a blowout in multifamily building loan deals have left some retail investors in a world of trouble.
The unravelling echoes the subprime mortgage boom that led to the 2008 financial crisis: A lending model built on packaging seemingly safe loans collapses under the weight of spiking interest rates and tanking values. Some investors, having lost most of their money, face personal calamity. Yet their ill-timed bets also show how FOMO and easy money combined to burst an American real estate bubble, again.
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