Well, nothing goes straight up, and you have some profit taking on a bad sector/market day. Also, the S/A article, the writer criticized the large buying of single family homes, while Warren Buffett had called it the best idea yet. I side with Buffett, and the many other smart Americans now buying homes. I seriously doubt that BX is buying extreme fixer upper shacks....lol.
No one with money pays attention to Suc king Alpha. If every reader they had sold all their shares it wouldn't move the market one iota.
The stock went down today because there was an article in some magazine (can't remember the name, but you can find it if you search for it) that speculated that there are so many companies converting distressed properties into rentals that it is pushing rents down.