Publications

In this fourth blog post on our research into corporate and investor ownership of New Jersey’s one- to four-unit residential properties, we present some preliminary findings from our analysis of property ownership from 2012 to 2022. Investor ownership, particularly by corporate entities, has become a growing concern for housing advocates and policymakers. Research suggests that […]

Corporate housing investors have been the subject of much reporting and even recent legislation aimed at curbing corporations from crowding out homebuyers. In October, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna, Katie Porter, and Mark Takano reintroduced the Stop Wall Street Landlords Act, which, among other things, would end the ability of large institutional investors to benefit from […]

This second blog on our team’s research on corporate investor ownership of residential properties in New Jersey addresses the methods used and the techniques developed so far. While New Jersey provides a lot of property tax data for public and research use, combining records from different times and places into a single, usable dataset isn’t […]

Corporate ownership of housing has been on the rise in the U.S. over the past decade, raising concerns about the impacts of this shift for both renters and would-be homebuyers. This trend encompasses large apartment buildings as well as smaller housing types like one-to-four family homes. There are multiple reasons for this trend, many of […]