President Trump Issues Executive Order on Investor Housing

The Trump administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to issue guidelines, review regulations, and implement requirements targeted at policies that facilitate the sales of single-family homes to institutional investors. .

Specifically, the executive order directs various federal agencies to issue guidance to:
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• Prevent agencies, including government-sponsored enterprises, from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing or facilitating the acquisition of single-family homes by large institutional investors.
  
  
• Prevent agencies from disposing of federal assets in a way that transfers a single-family home to a large institutional investor.
  
  
• Promote sales of single-family homes to individuals through various requirements.

The policy remains subject to further clarification and regulatory action before the enunciated policies are implemented.