Report: Institutions Now Net Sellers of Single-Family Homes

Report: Institutions Now Net Sellers of Single-Family Homes
News| March 4, 2026| Paul Bubny
Apartment Buildings

Even as Congress moves closer to a vote on a bill to ban institutional investment in single-family homes for rent, these investors have been drawing down their single-family rental inventories over the past two years, CNBC reported Wednesday. “Research from housing data and analytics firm Parcl Labs shows that the largest investors are now net sellers of homes,” wrote CNBC’s Diana Olick.

In every major metropolitan housing market, investors currently comprise a larger share of for-sale listings than they do of total housing stock, Olick wrote. “It’s a volatile housing market, and folks are trying to take risk off the table,” Jason Lewris, co-founder of Parcl Labs, told Olick. He noted that rents are not holding up relative to what investors can get through selling.

“So it’s better risk-adjusted returns to just get that cash and see how things pan out,” said Lewris.

In its latest quarterly earnings release last month, Invitation Homes said all of its 368 wholly owned acquisitions during the fourth quarter of 2025 were through homebuilder relationships. It sold 315 existing homes during Q4.

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