[projektfu]

Missing sarcasm tag on building homes quickly.

[nottorp]

Also on right across from the overpriced ones.

Should have been obvious...

[tomn]

Oops. I've seen worse free-market capitalist opinions held earnestly on HN, so it's hard to tell...

[nottorp]

Yeah, the one i replied to for example :)

[Geisterde]

There is property for sale in probably every corner of the world, you dont need to build anything.

[blactuary]

This is laughable. Every major metro area in the US is in the midst of a crisis of lack of housing supply.

[Geisterde]

And yet, property is for sale everywhere, go check zillow. You might not like the price, I imagine anybody looking to buy property to rent out probably has similar feelings; ultimately though, if they are using this "price fixing" algorithm, then it should be easy enough to out compete them by just lowering prices.

[blactuary]

That doesn't make any sense. There is a dramatic under-supply of housing, there will be no "out-competing". They're going to rent all of their apartments, the price-fixers and the non-price-fixers. They'd just be leaving money on the table, not "out-competing". They're not going to magically acquire a bunch of new non-existent housing to grow their market share. I implore you to move beyond econ 101 thinking.

[Geisterde]

Then its not price fixing, thats the market price. If I produce 3 fidgets a week and they all sell by monday morning, Id raise the price.