A $1 Billion Bet Americans Will Need More Single-Family Rentals 

Photographer: Chris Rank/Bloomberg

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Donald Mullen has raised another $1 billion to invest in U.S. rental houses as his firm, Pretium Partners LLC, leases homes to tenants shut out of an inventory-starved sales market.

Pretium closed on its second single-family rental fund with more than $1 billion in equity commitments, demonstrating that investors see staying power in an asset class once viewed as a short-term trade on distressed homes.