Ownership caps make headlines; existing law and exemptions collect the money.
State cap bills almost never enact and the federal ban's bite awaits OMB rulemaking, while transfer taxes, disclosure mandates, tenant-protection overlays that strip corporate exemptions, and rule-defined carve-outs decide where institutional capital actually pays.
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The practitioner review's own bottom line: ownership caps generate momentum without enactment, while disclosure regimes, transfer taxes, and tenant-protection overlays that revoke the single-family exemption for corporate owners impose the real financial exposure.
The federal ban's prohibition is fixed but its bite is being determined downstream in exemption-scope rulemaking — which may postdate the January effective date — as industry lobbies to widen the pathways that decide how much buying is actually curbed.