Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Atlantic Beach, investors own about 129 tracked properties across 37 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $592,000. 21 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Atlantic Beach has 37 active cash buyers holding roughly 129 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged under 0.6 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 cooling. Investors bought 21 properties in the last 12 months against roughly 61 the year before — down about 66%. Fewer buyers are competing per deal, which usually means more room to negotiate but a longer search for the right one.
The median investor purchase lands near $592,000. The average of $1,207,000 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 56.4% 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 1986. About 40.9% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 32233 is absorbing the most investor purchases in Atlantic Beach, and it is the fastest place to start if you are building a buyer list from scratch.
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.