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Trump Signs Order Barring Wall Street Investors From Buying Single-Family Homes
MLN -21 JAN 2026: President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order barring large Wall Street investors from buying and owning single-family homes, a move the White House framed as part of its push to address housing affordability ahead of the November midterm elections.
The order directs federal agencies to block large institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes and to increase scrutiny of corporate practices in local housing markets, according to the White House.
“Buying and owning a home has long been considered the pinnacle of the American dream and a way for families to invest and build lifetime wealth,” the executive order states. “But because of the recent high inflation and interest rates caused by the previous administration, that American dream has been increasingly out of reach for too many of our citizens, especially first-time homebuyers.”
Trump said large Wall Street investors have purchased a growing share of single-family homes, placing them in direct competition with families seeking to buy.
“Neighborhoods and communities once controlled by middle-class American families are now run by faraway corporate interests,” Trump said in the order. “People live in homes, not corporations. My Administration will take decisive action to stop Wall Street from treating America’s neighborhoods like a trading floor and empower American families to own their homes.”
Under the order, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is given 30 days to develop formal definitions for “large institutional investor” and “single-family home.” Cabinet agencies are then directed to issue guidance preventing federal programs from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing or otherwise facilitating such acquisitions.
The order also instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson to review major acquisitions by institutional investors and to prioritize antitrust enforcement, as appropriate, against coordinated vacancy and pricing strategies in local single, family rental markets.
