Institutional Investors Want You To Know They’re Good For The Housing Market

Banning Wall Street From Buying Houses Is Great, But Trump Needs To Do More

The move to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes is a step in the right direction, but it won’t fix the major housing affordability crisis we face right now.

Can Trump Make Housing Affordable Without Investors?

Joel Mathis, The Week Wall Street takes the blame

Institutional Investors Want You To Know They’re Good For The Housing Market

Institutional investors responded on Monday to the White House’s assertion that corporations have no business buying homes: Ban us at your own peril. In a recent press release, the National Rental Home Council (NRHC), an industry group that represents single-family home landlords, argued that, contrary to popular belief, the presence of investor-owned single-family home rentals is a force for affordability. But does reality match the realty clai…

Trump’s Wall Street home-buying ban won’t fix housing shortage, exec says

The NewsAn executive at the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the US said President Donald Trump’s move to outlaw institutional investors from owning homes won’t actually address a homebuilding shortage.“The notion that we are crowding out the individual homebuyer, I think, is an old view,” Stephen Scherr, president of investment firm Pretium, said in an interview.Trump’s announcement that he hopes to ban institutional investors fro…

Investors, analysts react to Trump’s single-family home buying ban

The president’s announcement that he would seek to bar institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes raises big questions for the housing industry.