> Not if private equity just snatches it all up

"As of December 2022, the five largest investors owned about 300,000 homes — just under 2% of single-family rental homes nationally."

Where institutions dominate is in rentals: "institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals in major markets" [1];.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/09/09/g-s1-87...