What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.
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In Mesa (85201), investors own about 277 tracked properties across 97 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $375,000. 119 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 119 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 61 the year before, up about 95%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 1979. 50.2% of the stock is pre-1980 — budget for older wiring, plumbing and the paperwork that comes with it.
85201 has 97 active cash buyers holding roughly 277 properties. Averaging below 1.2 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
Typical deal size in 85201 sits around $375,000. An average of $2,355,000 against that median means a handful of large purchases are skewing the mean. Use the median when you price, or you will aim high and lose the middle of the market.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 50.2% of tracked deals. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital here is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
Counts and prices here are drawn from recorded investor purchases in this ZIP code and refresh with new records. They are a record of past activity, not a forecast or investment advice.