← Atlas Theme · spans 1 topics
A purchase ban binds the flow of sales, never the stock of rentals.
The ROAD Act's chill on institutional buying touches a transactional flow that never set housing costs — Cotality finds no detectable price or rent effect where mega-investor purchases collapsed 40%, and 2026 rents grew fastest where institutional ownership is thinnest.
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Wall Street as Landlord
Academic Evidence on the Causal Impact of Institutional Landlords on House Prices and Rents The best causal evidence shows the ownership stock was never inflating average rents, so banning future purchases cannot reach affordability.
Wall Street as Landlord
Institutional SFR Ownership and Market Share: National Footprint vs. Local Geographic Concentration The provider of the purchase data itself reports a null effect precisely where the legislative chill on mega-investor transactions bit hardest.