US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:27PM (#46533134)

Once you try to clamp down on investment properties, you have couples getting divorces so they can own two homes (this happened in China), and all your kids are going to have their own home as well.

It isn't a bad idea, people will game whatever. A singapore public housing system might work better, but I doubt it would work for SFHs.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by ryandrake on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:31PM (#46533200)

This comment always comes up when regulation is proposed: "But people will just game it!" The solution is not to throw our hands up and say "Well, we just can't regulate this!" The solution is to prevent the gaming, too. Laws should iterate as often as people find clever ways to work around their spirit.

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by LPisGood on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:05PM (#46533745)

Realistically if the biggest problem is couple’s divorcing to get a second home, then the problem has been pretty well attacked

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Re:US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-fami... by potato3732842 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:22PM (#46536371)

Why do you people always need to use more jackboot? At some point the juice is not worth the squeeze.

If the rule changes fixes it in 9/10 cases and 1/10 games it then call it success and move on.

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