Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Mecklenburg County, investors own about 20,628 tracked properties across 638 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $1,523,000. 5,618 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Typical deal size in Mecklenburg County sits around $1,523,000. An average of $4,606,000 against that median means a handful of large purchases are skewing the mean. Use the median when you price, or you will aim high and lose the middle of the market.
There are 638 buyers paying cash in Mecklenburg County today, against a standing position of about 20,628 properties. That works out to about 8.8 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 trend is downward: 5,618 purchases against 6,825 the prior year, a decline of about 18%. Deals take longer to place here, and sellers who price for last year's market will sit.
Most capital here runs buy & hold — 56.4% of tracked activity. Hold strategies mean patient money: slower decisions, but the rent roll carries more weight than the flip math.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 2002. At 21.2% pre-1980, this is comparatively new housing — lighter rehab, fewer legacy-systems surprises.
Deal flow clusters in 90025-5296, 28173-6642 and 29063-9071. Those ZIPs lead Mecklenburg County on investor purchases, so they repay attention first 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.