Institutional investors versus average homebuyers
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🗓️ 22 June 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Congress is working on a bipartisan bill to address housing affordability by, among other things, making it easier to construct homes. One provision would place limits on the number of single-family homes that companies and institutional investors can purchase. The idea is to prevent deep-pocketed investors with all-cash offers from competing with regular buyers. Investors say they aren't the problem. So, who's right? This morning, we head to Las Vegas to find out. But first, businesses around the globe are pessimistic about how the war is affecting the economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Programming supported by Trinity Exteriors, a local team working to help neighbors across Minnesota maintain safe, comfortable homes, offering roofing, siding, and window renovations. Information and more at trinityexteriors.com. |
| 0:17.0 | Negotiations are underway to end hostilities in the Middle East, but global businesses are skeptical. |
| 0:22.8 | From Marketplace in Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams. Negotiations in Switzerland to permanently end the war in the Middle East have wrapped up for the day. |
| 0:31.2 | Businesses around the world are keeping a close eye on those talks and are pretty pessimistic about how the war is affecting the economy. |
| 0:38.6 | That's according to a new survey from Oxford Economics. Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Ginzer |
| 0:43.0 | reports. Businesses polled for the new Oxford Economics Global Risk Survey don't see things |
| 0:49.3 | getting back to normal anytime soon. More than two-fifths think ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz |
| 0:55.1 | will stay below pre-war levels for the rest of this year and into 2027, and three-fifths think |
| 1:01.2 | the Middle East will be a very significant risk to the global economy over the next two years. |
| 1:06.7 | The survey respondents also think there's a nearly 30% chance of a severe or sustained disruption |
| 1:12.2 | to the energy market if the Strait of Hormuz is basically closed until 2028. |
| 1:17.8 | There is a little good news. |
| 1:19.8 | The businesses in the poll now think there's less chance of a recession, but they still |
| 1:24.0 | predict the global economy will only grow 2.2% this year. |
| 1:27.8 | That's lower than the World Bank's projection. |
| 1:30.5 | It cut its latest growth forecast for 2026 to 2.5% because of the war in the Middle East. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm Nancy Marshall G Makhres, host of the Marketplace podcast. This is uncomfortable. We all have |
| 2:05.1 | that one financial task we're putting off. Maybe it's a bill you need a dispute, some paperwork |
| 2:10.5 | you've got to submit, an account even neglecting. Personally, I've got a pretty long list. |
| 2:16.1 | You know, studies show that it's much easier to get things done if you do them alongside someone else. So on July 1st, that is what we're going to do. I'm hosting a virtual co-working event where we all show up with at least one financial task we've been avoiding and spend an hour finally dealing with it together. So please bring the thing you've been putting off. I'll bring |
| 2:34.6 | mine, and we'll see you on July 1st. You can sign up for the virtual event at marketplace.org |
| 2:39.5 | slash TIU. |
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