Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Polk City, investors own about 25 tracked properties across 9 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $260,000. 18 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Investors bought 18 properties here over 12 months, up roughly 800% from about 2 a year earlier. Rising volume usually means capital returning to the market rather than leaving it.
Polk City has 9 active cash buyers holding roughly 25 properties. Fewer than 2.0 purchases per buyer over the past year means buying is thinly spread, so breadth of outreach matters more than any one contact.
Investors here buy at a median of $260,000. The average of $388,000 sits well above it, so a tail of higher-priced deals is pulling the mean up — most activity happens below the average, and pricing off the median is the safer read.
The dominant play is new construction, at 76.0% of tracked activity. That appetite for new inventory means condition sells itself — and that rehab-heavy deals are a harder placement than the buyer count implies.
The median investor-owned home was built around 2025. At 0.0% pre-1980, this is comparatively new housing — lighter rehab, fewer legacy-systems surprises.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 50226 absorbs the most investor purchases in Polk City, and it is the fastest place to start a buyer list.
These numbers come from recorded purchases in this city, updated as new records land. They report what has already happened and are not a prediction or investment advice.