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Who Owns America
Mapping Corporate Ownership of Residential Land
Noviembre 2025, inglés
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Geospatial Solutions (CGS) collaborated on a report that explores the current state of corporate ownership of residential property in the United States. The Who Owns America ® report combines CGS’s data and analysis expertise with the Lincoln Institute’s thought leadership in policy strategies to investigate corporate and institutional investor activity and recommend steps communities can take to preserve and protect affordable housing.
The report analyzes residential parcel ownership in nearly 500 counties—creating a baseline for understanding residential property ownership patterns across the United States. As part of this analysis, the report identifies 25 hotspots, a geographically diverse set of counties where property record data is most reliable and corporate activity is above baseline. It also provides a more detailed snapshot of three postindustrial cities—St. Louis, Baltimore, and Cleveland—allowing for more data-driven storytelling and further elaboration on land policy recommendations.
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“The report made me see the country’s real-estate crisis in a different light. Private-equity firms and other deep-pocketed investors aren’t why Seattle and Boston are unaffordable. Those cities have had shortage-driven housing crises that have intensified over decades. The firms aren’t why many towns in the Mountain West have seen jumps in home values and a corresponding increase in homelessness, displacement, and eviction.”
— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
“As the report puts it, data from real estate analytics firm Cotality ‘suggests that investors made nearly one-third of the country’s single-family home purchases in the first half of 2025 ‒ buying roughly 85,000 properties a month.’
Quantifying – and mapping – the trend of corporate ownership is important for several reasons. One of the most critical issues is that corporate landlords are often vilified for their perceived role in making it more difficult and expensive for ordinary Americans to achieve homeownership.”
— Andrea Riquier, USA Today