Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Durham County, investors own about 2,534 tracked properties across 113 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $315,000. 1,221 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The trend is upward: 1,221 purchases this year against 652 last, about 87% more. Expect contracts to move faster and price expectations to firm up.
Across Durham County, 113 active buyers account for approximately 2,534 investor-held properties. That works out to about 10.8 deals per buyer in 12 months. Volume like that comes from professional operators rather than occasional purchasers, and a few names will dominate your pipeline.
The median investor purchase lands near $315,000. An average of $349,000 that close to the median means one price band describes nearly the whole market.
Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 100.0% of tracked deals. Hold strategies mean patient money: slower decisions, but the rent roll carries more weight than the flip math.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIPs 27703, 27704 and 27705 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Durham County, and they are the fastest place to start a buyer list before working outward through the rest of the county.
All figures above reflect recorded transactions in this county and update as records are processed. Past activity only — nothing here is a forecast or investment advice.