Gambling ? No, I don't think so anyone selling a property wants to achieve the best price.
Will they have an assembly talk or article telling the sheeple what money they are making on the sale of properties?
I doubt it. So, in my opnion, it smacks more of greedy, dishonest bastardry, to be asking for ice cream money at the same time as multi million dollar property sales are going down.
But, who really is "they" and what do "they" need all this money for exactly?
Is all the money going into a giant fund labeled WWW? I don't think so!