As would-be home buyers find themselves shut out of the market due to rising home prices and lower but still high interest rates, questions have been raised about whether institutional investors with their vast resources of cash and data are a source of the problem.

Nowhere is the question of how to respond to the rise of institutional investors that make mass purchases of single-family homes more urgent than in Atlanta. A May analysis by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that giant firms play a bigger role in the Atlanta metro than in any other region.


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