“Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first quarter of 2025 were bought by investors.”
What PolitiFact found
This percentage is credible for new sales, but the talking point exaggerates the overall share of housing in investors’ hands and who owns them. Data shows that small-scale, "mom and pop" investors account for a far greater share of investor-owned units than Wall Street firms do, and the combination of the two remains a distinct minority of all units. And large-investor holdings are primarily an issue in about 20 large metropolitan areas, not the nation as a whole.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Josh Riley (House member, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 8 January 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 February 2026, 49 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Where the claim appeared
- riley.house.govhttps://riley.house.gov/2026/01/08/riley-introduces-bipartisan-bill-to-stop-wall-street-f…
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