The build-to-rent (BTR) industry, which has been under siege from legislative uncertainty since March, just got a modicum of welcome news. On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of the U.S. Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act by a margin of 396 to 13 that removed the proposed seven-year selloff […]
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President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post Monday night, urged Congress to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. In the post, Trump doubled down on his support for a ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes. The Senate’s version of the bill includes a provision that would prohibit investment firms that own
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No major U.S. metro area has more single-family rental (SFR) homes owned by institutional investors than Atlanta, with current totals sitting at roughly 72,000 houses — nearly doubling No. 2 Phoenix. That concentration represents about 30% of Atlanta’s single-family rental market, a share 10 times the national average, according to a new report from the
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Last week, 76 members of Congress, specifically the Real Estate Caucus and the Build America Caucus, signed a bipartisan letter “expressing serious concerns” over section 901 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The letter, signed by 38 democrats and 38 republicans, urged House leadership to remove or substantially alter the highly contentious Section
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Built-for-rent multifamily construction surged at the end of 2025, extending the cycle’s heavy tilt toward rentals and keeping average apartment sizes below pre-Great Recession levels, according to a National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) analysis of Census Bureau data. NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz reported that 96,000 multifamily units started construction in the fourth quarter
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Rents for both multifamily and single-family built-to-rent units moved sideways over the last year. Still, rents in most major Sun Belt markets are down annually due to a glut of new housing, according to the latest Yardi Matrix National Multifamily Report. Meanwhile, rental growth is typically the strongest in the Midwest, Northeast, and California. This
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