Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Fountain Hills, investors own about 293 tracked properties across 44 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $360,000. 36 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The median investor purchase lands near $360,000. The gap between that median and the $7,139,000 average is the story here — a few outsized trades, with the real volume well underneath them.
Within Fountain Hills, ZIP 85268 carries the heaviest investor activity — the obvious place to begin.
Investor ownership in Fountain Hills runs to roughly 293 properties, spread across 44 active buyers. At under 0.8 deals per buyer in 12 months, no small group controls this market; expect to work a longer list for the same volume.
At 36 purchases this year against 36 last, pace is essentially unchanged, which makes this market easier to forecast than most.
Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 84.5% of tracked deals. Hold strategies mean patient money: slower decisions, but the rent roll carries more weight than the flip math.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1998. At 10.5% pre-1980, this is comparatively new housing — lighter rehab, fewer legacy-systems surprises.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this city and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.