Fannie, Freddie Place Large Bids for Mortgage-Backed Securities

President Donald Trump said he will ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes and will ask Congress to codify the measure. If enacted, the policy would be a sector-level headwind for institutional homebuyers, single-family rental platforms and private-equity buyers, likely reducing institutional demand for single-family houses and potentially affecting valuations and rental market dynamics.

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President Donald Trump said he will ban large institutional investors from buying additional single-family homes and will ask Congress to codify the measure. If enacted, the policy would be a sector-level headwind for institutional homebuyers, single-family rental platforms and private-equity buyers, likely reducing institutional demand for single-family houses and potentially affecting valuations and rental market dynamics.