Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Franklin County, investors own about 58,379 tracked properties across 688 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $137,000. 9,516 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Franklin County has 688 active cash buyers holding roughly 58,379 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged about 13.8 purchases each, which points to a market worked by repeat, high-volume operators rather than one-off purchasers — expect a smaller set of names to account for most of the deal flow.
Acquisition pace is cooling. Investors bought 9,516 properties in the last 12 months against roughly 21,467 the year before — down about 56%. Fewer buyers are competing per deal, which usually means more room to negotiate but a longer search for the right one.
The median investor purchase lands near $137,000. The average of $18,388,000 sits well above that median, which means a tail of higher-priced deals is pulling the mean up — most activity is happening below the average, and pricing a deal off the median is the safer read.
The dominant play is buy & hold, at 50.5% of tracked activity. Buy-and-hold capital prices for yield rather than resale margin, so rent support matters more to these buyers than after-repair comps.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1984. About 46.7% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 43224, 43230 and 43068 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Franklin County, and they are the fastest place to start if you are building a buyer list from scratch before working outward through the rest of the county.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this county and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.