GTIS Partners, one of the largest investors in global real estate, has its eyes set on new, uniquely American investment opportunity: U.S. single family housing. It’s less exotic than their usual hot spots – but far more distressed, thus making these assets quite cheap. Investors such as GTIS are buying groups of single family homes – not to flip them, but to rent them.
“You’ve got 14 million homes under water in the U.S. About 7 million are deeply underwater and about 3.6 million in that group are on the verge of foreclosure,” says Tom Shapiro, president and founder of GTIS.
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