SPAC Gores Holdings VI jumps after CNBC commentator pitches
- SPAC Gores Holdings VI (GHVI), which is combining with Matterport, advanced 15% after CNBC commentator Josh Brown pitched it as a longidea on CNBC.
So I guess my question for Josh or Van is this.
YES millennials are becoming an important new buyers club for homes.
ONLY millennials would buy a home without seeing it in person.
BUT yes they are doing that. Unbelievably.
So 63% of buyers using Redfin <--? I guess a real estate web sit 63% MADE AN OFFER WITHOUT SEEING THE HOME!!! AND YES THEY USED 3D WALK ABOUTS!
MONTHLY VIEWERS AT REDFIN 3D WALK-THROUGHS ARE UP 500%!!! WHY DO THEY NEED GORES HOLDINGS? REDFIN IS USING ONE OF THE 25 OR SO OTHER COMPANIES DOING THE EXACT SAME THING....
As a homeowner I can tell you this buying sight unseen fad will fade quickly. A couple Winter's burst pipes and ruined roofs... I can already tell you from a hipster perspective... those folks that left Brooklyn for upstate NY are REALLY REGRETTING IT! I've spoken to a bunch of them the hidden costs the isolation and the nasty weather they are all looking to come back to NYC.
Having run into a ton of hidden costs they will NOT be buying site unseen. These folks would be in their mid 30's STILL THE MOST Important Age for home buying... A lot of millennials rent.
ok, so i've only done the smallest bit of reading on this, but I'm not so sure this stock is a real estate play. for a long time, futurists have predicted that we will be living in a world where our downloaded consciousnesses will interact in a virtual world. we can bash the desirability and/or plausibility of that, but matterport looks like strides towards this. the ability to simply create a virtual environment seems like a big thing, with many practical uses nevermind the futurist utopia.
Ray Kurweil predicting that we will live forever virtually:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200001/live-forever