Wall Street Landlords Are Firing Up Their Home-Buying Engines

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By Patrick Clark

May 17, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC

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Wall Street landlords are back in action.

Institutional investors bought more single-family rental homes in 2017 than in previous year, the first increase since 2013, according to data compiled by Amherst Holdings LLC.