President Donald Trump set the real estate world scrambling early January when he declared war on large institutional investors in a policy statement, asking Congress to act on the issue.

President Donald Trump set the real estate world scrambling early January when he declared war on large institutional investors in a policy statement, asking Congress to act on the issue.

Some real estate experts aren’t totally sold on President Donald Trump’s latest proposed policies on residential real estate leading to relief for the Las Vegas Valley housing crisis. Trump’s other policy statement was to direct Congress to act on banning large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes. Investors, Wall Street backed-hedged funds and corporate owners have long played a significant role in Las Vegas’ housing market as a recent report from UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate — which pulled its data from Redfin — estimates investors have purchased more than 99,000 homes since the start of the Great Recession.

A new report says investors own 24.84% of Nevada’s single-family homes, equating to about 303,000 properties. That’s 6% higher than the national average and the seventh highest share in the nation behind Wyoming (30.9%), Maine (29.76%), Montana (26.78%), Alaska (26.65%), Hawaii (25.96%), and New Hampshire (25.04%).

Real estate experts are keeping an eye on the local market after President Donald Trump said he would ban corporate investors who buy up single-family homes. According to the director of the Lied Center for Real Estate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Shawn McCoy, out-of-state investors buying up homes in Las Vegas happens more than in other states.

Horsford cited a 2023 study by UNLV’s Lied Center for Real Estate, which found that about 15% of all homes in the Las Vegas valley were owned by out-of-state corporate investors, including 25% of all homes in North Las Vegas.