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The share of homes investors are purchasing is slowing, with some cities seeing activity decrease by more than 60%.

“It seems pretty likely that home seller profits peaked for this cycle in 2022,” said Rick Sharga, EVP of Market Intelligence at ATTOM.

HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research held its quarterly meeting to discuss the increase in activity by large institutional investors who oversee more than 1,000 properties in HUD’s portfolio.

Citing recent data from First American Data & Analytics, investor purchases of residential homes as rental properties as a share of all residential home sales, have increased sharply over the course of the last year.  This number has risen from ...

Most foreclosure buyers are local community developers renovating and reselling to owner-occupants. Daren Blomquist of Auction.com examines this market segment and others taking part in home auctions nationwide.

DS News recently spoke with Gary Beasley, CEO of co-founder of Roofstock Investing, about how the SFR landscape has changed—and what lies ahead for the industry.

The single-family REO-to-rental market is being consolidated seven years after the crash as some investors are still looking to profit, while others are taking advantage of economies of scale. ProTeck concluded there will always be a need for rental properties, and there will always be a need for investors to purchase those properties.

The claims that were revived in the state court involved 794 private-label residential mortgage-backed securities that were securitized during a three-year period immediately prior to the financial crisis (2004 to 2007). According to reports, at the time of securitization, the trusts were worth about $743.8 billion. The investors are accusing the Minneapolis-based bank, as a trustee for the securities, of ignoring defects in the loans and failing to take action, which subsequently caused investors to lose billions of dollars in the aftermath of the crisis.

Over the past two years, the SFR mortgage-backed securities market for single family rentals has grown rapidly, the CoStar reported. Institutional owners have brought 18 of these transactions to a total market value of $9.8 billion.

The possibility of a high return on investment has given institutional investors the opportunity and motivation to cash out, leaving many to wonder about the future of the single-family rental industry and how it would be affected in areas with a high concentration of single-family homes purchased as rentals, should investors sell off in large quantities.