Private equity and residential property: moral hazard?

Investors have a responsibility to minimise the social impact of the growing participation of private equity funds in multi-family assets could have a negative social impact, a prominent property investor has warned. “I can see private equity funds getting into multi-family because of the supply-demand imbalance: this provides a huge opportunity to dramatically raise rents in the short-term. At the social level, there is a responsibility there, though. It’s a fine line,” Robert-Ja…