Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Decatur, investors own about 1,920 tracked properties across 122 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $300,000. 443 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Decatur has 122 active cash buyers holding roughly 1,920 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged about 3.6 purchases each, which points to a market worked by repeat, high-volume operators rather than one-off purchasers — expect a smaller set of names to account for most of the deal flow.
Acquisition pace is steady. Investors bought 443 properties in the last 12 months, close to the 420 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 $300,000. The average of $2,828,000 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 100.0% 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.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 30034, 30032 and 30035 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Decatur, 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 city.
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.