<h1>Proposed ban on institutional investors buying single-family homes, plus oil tanker seizures to curb Venezuelan oil flows announced</h1> Proposed executive action was announced to block large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes, prescribing a purchase prohibition aimed at improving housing affordability; if implemented, it would restrict market participation by specified investor classes and materially affect homebuilder and housing-market activity. Separately, the US seized two oil tankers as part of measures to assert control over Venezuelan oil; the operative effect is to deprive the vessels of free navigation and interrupt the transportation and commercial disposition of the cargo pending US enforcement actions and policy objectives.