By comparison, the bottom 20% of U.S. earners hold just 5% of real estate wealth.

The top 1% of earners in America hold 12.7% of the country’s real estate wealth, and those in the 80th to 99th income percentile hold 43.7%. All together, that means the top 20% of earners hold more than half (56.4%) of the real estate wealth in the U.S.