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0 pointstantalor1y ago0 comments

You misunderstood. If I can build a house for half the cost, that goes to my profit margin, not a discount for the buyer.

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janalsncm1y ago

As Jeff Bezos says, your margin is my opportunity. So yes, it would drive costs down. But we aren’t even there yet because the houses aren’t being sold because they’re too expensive.

Another way to pad your profit margins would be to raise the asking price of the $360k home by $100k. There is a reason people aren’t doing that.

dghlsakjg1y ago

That’s not how real estate works.

Amazon deals in commodity goods that are easily substituteable.

Housing is different because every single one is unique (by virtue of location) and also incredibly scarce (again, location).

Housing markets tend to strongly fight any tendency towards underpricing. When a house is underpriced, buyers will get into a bidding war and push the price back into the fair market price.

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