Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Florida, investors own about 50,029 tracked properties across 22,570 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $138,000. 5,858 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Florida has 22,570 active cash buyers holding roughly 50,029 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged under 0.3 purchases each, so the buyer pool is broad rather than concentrated: more names to work, with fewer deals riding on any single relationship.
Acquisition pace is steady. Investors bought 5,858 properties in the last 12 months, close to the 5,431 they bought the year before, so the buyer pool here has held its footing rather than swinging with the headlines.
The median investor purchase lands near $138,000. The average of $919,000 sits well above that median, which means a tail of higher-priced deals is pulling the mean up — most activity is happening below the average, and pricing a deal off the median is the safer read.
The dominant play is buy & hold, at 52.7% of tracked activity. Buy-and-hold capital prices for yield rather than resale margin, so rent support matters more to these buyers than after-repair comps.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1983. About 44.2% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 32724, 32114 and 32174 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Florida, and they are the fastest place to start if you are building a buyer list from scratch before working outward through the rest of the state.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this state and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.
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