The Rush for Rentals by Investors Turns Into a Run for the Exit

The list of private-equity firms that over this past year have been rushing to get a stake in the supposedly red hot single-family home market include: Colony Capital LLC, Oaktree Capital Group LLC, KKR & Co., GTIS Partners and Och-Ziff Capital Management LLC, and Waypoint Real Estate Group LLC, a real-estate investment firm in the single-family rental market that last year reported securing $245 million from Citigroup Inc., to expand its existing portfolio of over than 2,400 homes.

Last September, Waypoint's managing director, Gary Beasley, talking about investors buying up homes said...''