A private equity company has purchased every sports league, indoor sports complex, pool, and summer camp in my area. They then drop prices to destroy the local competition and then buy them too. After that they raise prices.
They always do....that's partly how private equity works.
Example, buy out a well-known software product with a lot of customers. Then offshore development to cut costs. Then raise prices to milk customers that are too slow to migrate. Eventually the software dies off.
Depends on what it is and if there is any competition left. Some things have gone up in price where they have a local monopoly. I think their real play is the underlying land value. They are often able to buy distressed businesses with a lot of land cheaply.
