Institutional Ownership of Single-Family Housing and Build-to-Rent Communities: Emerging Regulatory Trends and What Developers Need to Know

The useful part

Introduction Over the past several years, institutional ownership of single-family rental housing has become an increasingly significant political and regulatory issue at both the federal and state levels. Many of the current policy proposals and discussions are directed primarily at large-scale acquisition of existing homes in the resale market. As a result, proposed legislation often targets bulk acquisitions, acquisitions of existing homes and institutional aggregation of scattered-site portfolios.

How it works

• This distinction has become increasingly important in recent federal and state legislative proposals, several of which exempt or partially e...

Example or evidence

• The narrative has rapidly evolved into a developing policy landscape with potentially meaningful implications for developers, institutional equity providers, lenders, and operators in the single-family...