{"id":2573776,"date":"2026-02-26T06:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mixed-gop-reception-for-ban-on-large-investors-buying-single-family-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:13:43","slug":"mixed-gop-reception-for-ban-on-large-investors-buying-single-family-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mixed-gop-reception-for-ban-on-large-investors-buying-single-family-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed GOP reception for ban on large investors buying single-family homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmixed-gop-reception-for-ban-on-large-investors-buying-single-family-homes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2573776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Washington examiner reports that Republicans are divided over President Trump\u2019s push to ban large institutional investors from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenomics-average-american-cant-afford-homes-in-99-of-country\/\" title=\"Bidenomics: Most Americans Can&#039;t ... in 99% of the Country.\">buying single-family homes<\/a>, a key part of his housing agenda, with the White House seeking to codify the measure into law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The proposal would define a large institutional investor as any fund, corporation, or entity that controls more than 100 single-family homes, and the White House has begun circulating draft language to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Some Republicans support moving forward,arguing for action on housing constraints; Sen. Jim banks and others say there is growing support, and Sen. Rick Scott indicated he\u2019d be surprised if such a ban isn\u2019t included in housing legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Other Republicans oppose or are skeptical, saying the policy could exacerbate housing affordability challenges or misdiagnose the problem. Sen. Thom tillis and Senate Majority Leader John Thune noted intraparty concerns and resistance to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Proponents argue that banning large investors like Blackstone would help individual homebuyers, while critics note that institutional investors own only a small share of housing stock and that the policy might push prices up or reduce housing options for renters who might otherwise gain mortgages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Democratic views are not uniform: some Democrats back restricting large buyers, but top Democrat Emanuel Cleaver expressed caution about government restrictions on who can buy homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article highlights ongoing debates over whether the policy would improve access to homes or simply complicate the housing market, with the outcome in Congress uncertain amid intra-party and bipartisan negotiations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mixed GOP reception for Trump ban on large investors buying single-family homes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2511650\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4471758\/trump-state-of-the-union-wish-list-odds-congress\/\">Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;are split over President&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a>&nbsp;push to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, even as the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>&nbsp;pushes for the provision to be included in bipartisan&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/housing\/\">housing<\/a>&nbsp;legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has advanced such a ban as a key plank of his housing agenda, even though it is at odds with traditional Republican free-market economics. Fiscal conservatives argue that such firms aren&rsquo;t crowding out homebuying and the policy change could backfire by making housing more expensive for some.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4472295\/abigail-spanberger-democrat-affordability-champion\/\">Democrats&rsquo; new affordability champion Spanberger has no record of cutting costs yet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4470860\/trump-pledges-new-retirement-account-plans\/\">Trump pledges new retirement account plans for workers without 401(k)s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4469755\/trump-boasts-falling-inflation-during-joint-address-context\/\">Trump boasts of falling inflation during joint address: Here&rsquo;s the context<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4471758\/trump-state-of-the-union-wish-list-odds-congress\/\">TRUMP STATE OF THE UNION WISH LIST FACES LONG ODDS IN CONGRESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN), a member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;that Trump got a great response to his push during the State of the Union. He also said that Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is one of the Republicans leading the charge to include it and said &ldquo;he&rsquo;s building some support.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I support doing something on it, President Trump does too,&rdquo; Banks said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump first announced the proposal earlier this year and later signed an executive order meant to effectuate it in part. But the administration&rsquo;s goal has always been for Congress to pass such a restriction into law. He mentioned the executive order during his speech Tuesday and called on Congress to codify a ban.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m asking Congress to make that ban permanent, because all this for, people, really, that&rsquo;s what we want,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;We want homes for people, not for corporations. Corporations are doing just fine.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But some Republicans in the conference are flatly opposed to the Trump proposal, such as outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), another member of the banking committee and someone who has not shied away from breaking with the president. Tillis noted that the policy has been proposed by liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To me, I think it&rsquo;s masking the underlying problem of not enough housing starts,&rdquo; Tillis told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;So if we view that as a solution to that problem, I don&rsquo;t see how it fits. I&rsquo;ve been against it when Bernie Sanders first proposed it, or Elizabeth Warren, I&rsquo;m still against it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4471758\/trump-state-of-the-union-wish-list-odds-congress\/\">acknowledged<\/a>&nbsp;some intraparty challenges on the housing front related to the proposed ban.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those are issues that, on our side, obviously are &mdash; they&rsquo;re not unanimous,&rdquo; Thune told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4464575\/white-house-circulates-bill-ban-large-investors-single-family-housing\/\">first reported<\/a>&nbsp;last week that the White House had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >begun circulating draft legislative language<\/a> to ban major firms such as Blackstone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-street-firms-are-buying-up-single-family-homes\/\" title=\"Wall Street ... Are Buying Up Single...Family ...\">purchasing single-family homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, in which the Trump administration could try to have included in either the bipartisan bill in the Senate, the Road to Housing Act, or the House&rsquo;s Housing for the 21st Century Act, is fairly straightforward. It defines a &ldquo;large institutional investor&rdquo; as any investment fund, corporation, or entity that controls over 100 single-family homes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said he thinks some of the details, such as what constitutes a large institutional investor, in the Trump proposal that the White House circulated on Capitol Hill could end up changing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the numbers may change a little bit, I mean, like 100 to maybe 500 or 1,000, or something like that, but I think there&rsquo;s definitely a path forward,&rdquo; Mullin said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said he would &ldquo;be surprised&rdquo; if a ban on institutional investors purchasing single-family homes isn&rsquo;t included in the housing legislation, although he said he hasn&rsquo;t been a part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), a member of the banking committee, was a little more circumspect about an outright ban on such purchases. Rounds said he doesn&rsquo;t know what the appetite within the conference is for the move, &ldquo;but I think that there are areas to be explored with regard to tax policy and so forth,&rdquo; he told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would rather see us go after additional incentives for home ownership and maybe some tax incentives to decrease investment companies might be the alternative, or might be the option,&rdquo; Rounds later said to a group of reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of banning firms such as Blackstone from buying single-family homes, many of whom are on the Left and populist Right, argue that those investors are crowding out the market for homebuyers.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the proposal make the point that not only do these institutional investors purchase a very tiny percentage of the country&rsquo;s total housing stock, but they might make it easier for people to rent homes that they might not have been able to receive a mortgage to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Many Democrats support banning such firms from purchasing single-family homes, so any housing legislation could bleed Republican votes as long as a lot of Democrats sign on.<\/p>\n<p>But even some Democrats aren&rsquo;t the biggest fans of such a move.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4417777\/democrat-challenges-trump-plan-ban-investors-single-family-houses\/\">TOP DEMOCRAT CHALLENGES TRUMP ON BAN OF BIG INVESTORS FROM SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, Rep.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3924577\/major-bipartisan-bill-to-counter-housing-crisis-advances-in-house\/\">Emanuel Cleaver<\/a>&nbsp;(D-MO), the ranking member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, expressed skepticism about the policy proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether or not we should get into telling who can buy single-family or multi-family housing, you know?&rdquo; Cleaver said. &ldquo;I mean, I probably sound like a Republican, but &hellip; I don&rsquo;t want to get into trying to dictate who can buy what in the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP split on Trump plan to bar big single-family buyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":2573777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26028757515805.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6203,71242,74615,27491,74614],"class_list":["post-2573776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-gop","tag-housing-policy-2","tag-investor-ban-2","tag-real-estate","tag-single-family-homes-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26028757515805.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573780,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573776\/revisions\/2573780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}