President Donald Trump announced that he will be taking steps to prevent investors from purchasing single-family homes.
“For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. 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 wrote on Truth Social. “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. People live in homes, not corporations.”
Trump added that he will discuss the matter further in a forthcoming speech in Davos, referring to the World Economic Forum’s summit.
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, large corporate investors “own an increasing share of single-family homes, taking properties off the market for individual homebuyers and putting upward pressure on home prices and rents.” The 2023 report explained that such investors primarily focus on the Sun Belt and low-income areas.
“In addition to preventing individual buyers from purchasing homes, investor activity lowers the overall availability of homes for purchase and raises prices for the remaining homes in the market,” the report said.
A recent report from HousingWire shared that out-of-state investors purchased 5.56% of U.S. single-family homes in 2025. The number is slightly below the number from 2024, but is close to the 5.8% in 2019.
