Largest home-leasing companies have strong occupancy, rent collection and expect demand for suburban houses to rise
Wall Street’s wager on high-earning suburban renters is paying off, and it is raising its stakes.
Investors are flocking to America’s mega landlords, drawn by signs the companies that emerged from last decade’s foreclosure crisis owning huge pools of rental houses are weathering the economic shutdown far better than feared. Many also expect that the coronavirus pandemic will make suburban single-family homes both more desirable and more difficult to buy for even the relatively well-heeled