Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Des Moines (50320), investors own about 116 tracked properties across 40 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $160,000. 40 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Investor ownership in 50320 runs to roughly 116 properties, spread across 40 active buyers. Averaging below 1.0 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
Investor-held stock here dates to a median of 1996. At 23.3% pre-1980, this is comparatively new housing — lighter rehab, fewer legacy-systems surprises.
The trend is upward: 40 purchases this year against 35 last, about 14% more. Expect contracts to move faster and price expectations to firm up.
Half of investor purchases here close below $160,000. Average and median nearly agree here ($198,000), which makes comps unusually reliable.
Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 43.9% of tracked deals. Hold strategies mean patient money: slower decisions, but the rent roll carries more weight than the flip math.
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.