Wall Street Snaps Up Cheap Single-Family Rentals

  • Cheaper properties seen generating better yield as prices rise
  • Promise Homes, backed by Ares founders, buys from Invitation
Promise Homes house in Decatur, Georgia.

Source: Promise Homes

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For Invitation Homes Inc., the U.S. landlord built by Blackstone Group LP, the 220 houses it owned in working-class areas around Atlanta were outliers, filled primarily with low-income tenants paying rents well below those at its other properties.

For another company with big private equity ties, the homes were an opportunity.