The purchase ban restricts the smaller price channel and exempts the larger one.
Early causal evidence puts a 2–3% neighborhood price effect on each nearby build-to-rent home — clustered by the hundreds in outer-suburb starter-home locations — a per-unit effect that may exceed the existing-home acquisitions the ROAD Act restricts, and the exempt channel is already carrying institutional growth for Lennar's spinoff and the largest incumbent operators.
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The exempt channel was deliberately preserved under industry lobbying and is in force ahead of the ban's effective date.
The largest incumbents are repositioning their growth engines inside the exempt channel before the ban's restrictions bite.
This is the early causal estimate underwriting the theme's claim that the exempt build-to-rent channel's per-unit neighborhood price effect exceeds the existing-home acquisitions the ban restricts.
Lennar's spinoff is running institutional growth through exactly the build-to-rent exemption the ban leaves open — the theme's named exempt channel, now documented at scale and above-retail pricing.