Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In West Des Moines (50265), investors own about 128 tracked properties across 41 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $185,000. 27 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The median investor purchase lands near $185,000. The gap between that median and the $330,000 average is the story here — a few outsized trades, with the real volume well underneath them.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 1955. With 71.9% built before 1980, expect pre-1978 disclosure obligations and aging mechanicals on most of what trades.
50265 has 41 active cash buyers holding roughly 128 properties. Fewer than 0.7 purchases per buyer over the past year means buying is thinly spread, so breadth of outreach matters more than any one contact.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 27 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 23 the year before, up about 17%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 71.9% of tracked deals. Buyers geared for renovation will look at stock that would not trade in a new-construction market.
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.