Feds Look to Ban Single-Family Home Purchases by Large Corporate Investors
LAS VEGAS, NV – In response to ongoing home affordability issues in the United States fueled by large, Wall Street-backed investors snapping up houses in large numbers across the nation to use as rentals, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will attempt to ban such activity going forward.
On Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, the Republican president outlined his plan to work with Congress on preventing corporate investors from further entrenching themselves into the residential real estate market – while also taking shots at his predecessor, Joe Biden, and the Democratic Party – and said that he would further speak on the matter at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland later this month.
For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream,” Trump said in his Truth Social post. “It was the reward for working hard, and doing the right thing, but now, because of the Record High Inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American Dream is increasingly out of reach for far too many people, especially younger Americans.”
Trump called upon the assistance on Congress in making the corporate ban into law in order to help make housing more affordable for Americans, and noted that he would be revealing further housing proposals at the upcoming World Economic Forum.
It is for that reason, and much more, that I am immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, and I will be calling on Congress to codify it,” he said. “People live in homes, not corporations. I will discuss this topic, including further Housing and Affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.”
Prices of homes jumped to record-highs during COVID-19; since the end of the pandemic, costs have lowered but nonetheless remain above the norm – as have mortgage rates – with the median sale price of a single-family home in 2025 coming in at $410,800.
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Christopher Boyle is an expert investigative journalist for SEARCHEN NETWORKS® and reports for independent news and media organizations in the United States. Christopher keeps a keen-eye on what’s happening in the Vegas real estate market on behalf of Shelter Realty Property Management