AB 213 Wisconsin Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Relating to: prohibiting hedge funds from acquiring single-family homes in this state. (FE)

AB 213 prohibits hedge funds managing $50 million or more in assets from acquiring or owning single-family homes in the state. It defines "hedge fund" as investment entities meeting specific criteria (not tax-exempt organizations, managing pooled investor funds). Violations require forfeiting the home to the state, enforced by the attorney general, but only apply to ownership acquired after a future effective date - existing holdings are unaffected. The bill directly affects large hedge funds meeting its financial and structural definition, not all real estate investors.
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Introduced Apr 23, 2025 Last action Mar 23, 2026
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Introduced by Representatives Haywood, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Palmeri, Neubauer, Snodgrass, Brown, Joers, Sheehan, Stroud, Hong, Tenorio, Stubbs, Goodwin, Rivera-Wagner, Clancy, Fitzgerald, Bare, Anderson, Moore Omokunde, Behnke, Madison, Sinicki, Mayadev, Emerson, Johnson and Miresse; cosponsored by Senators Keyeski, Pfaff, Larson, Carpenter, Ratcliff, Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, Habush Sinykin, Drake, Hesselbein, Smith, Wirch and L. Johnson
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