Is this really such a bad thing? If houses are increasingly being bought by owner-occupiers, this frees up an existing home (either the house they are selling or the rental property they were living in) when they move in. Therefore, no net change in housing supply due to this.

In fact, more houses being bought by owner-occupiers than investors might actually result in an increased availability of housing stock, if some of those investors were letting the houses sit empty instead of renting them out. I wish this had been considered in this article.

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