1245 - Warren Buffett Is Investing in New Construction—Here’s Why You Might Want to as Well by Kevan Shelton
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English - March 12, 2024 06:00 - 10 minutes - ★★★★★ - 295 ratingsInvesting Business Entrepreneurship real estate success financial freedom financial independence wealth wholesaling money landlord realestate real estate investing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you’ve been paying attention to news in the real estate sector, you will know that new construction has faced many challenges since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. From rising prices of construction materials to labor shortages and, most recently, high mortgage interest rates, the homebuilding industry has had more than its fair share of hard knocks. Indeed, homebuilder confidence dropped for three consecutive months in 2023.
And yet one of the most respected, successful investors out there invested in three big construction companies last year. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed investments in D.R. Horton, Lennar, and NVR, with a total investment of $814 million. And that’s against Berkshire’s overall wait-and-see approach.
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If you’ve been paying attention to news in the real estate sector, you will know that new construction has faced many challenges since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. From rising prices of construction materials to labor shortages and, most recently, high mortgage interest rates, the homebuilding industry has had more than its fair share of hard knocks. Indeed, homebuilder confidence dropped for three consecutive months in 2023.
And yet one of the most respected, successful investors out there invested in three big construction companies last year. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed investments in D.R. Horton, Lennar, and NVR, with a total investment of $814 million. And that’s against Berkshire’s overall wait-and-see approach.
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