What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.
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In Johnston, investors own about 102 tracked properties across 27 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $314,000. 59 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 59 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 31 the year before, up about 90%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
77.5% of tracked activity in Johnston is new construction. Capital aimed at new builds wants clean product. A distressed-property pitch has to work harder here than the headline buyer count suggests.
The median investor-owned home was built around 2025. Only about 7.8% predates 1980, so the stock skews newer and rehab scopes tend to be lighter.
Within Johnston, ZIP 50131 carries the heaviest investor activity — the obvious place to begin.
Across Johnston, 27 active buyers account for approximately 102 investor-held properties. Fewer than 2.2 purchases per buyer over the past year means buying is thinly spread, so breadth of outreach matters more than any one contact.
The median investor purchase lands near $314,000. The gap between that median and the $510,000 average is the story here — a few outsized trades, with the real volume well underneath them.
Counts and prices here are drawn from recorded investor purchases in this city and refresh with new records. They are a record of past activity, not a forecast or investment advice.