housing stock
noun
: the total number of houses and apartments in an area
There was a decrease in available housing stock last year.
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The finance industry swooped in to desirable neighborhoods to buy up suddenly cheap housing stock and started collecting rent on those properties.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
Five years later, only 23% of Olathe’s housing stock was less than $300,000.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2026
Firms that own 100 or more single-family homes control roughly 2% of the nation’s single-family housing stock, according to John Burns Research and Consulting — raising questions about how much impact such a ban would have.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
Institutional investors account for roughly 1% of total single-family housing stock, according to an August analysis by researchers at the American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
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“Housing stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housing%20stock. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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