What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.
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In Columbus (43085), investors own about 566 tracked properties across 19 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $150,000. 68 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The trend is downward: 68 purchases against 349 the prior year, a decline of about 81%. Deals take longer to place here, and sellers who price for last year's market will sit.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 2008. Just 7.2% was built before 1980, which keeps renovation scopes and disclosure burdens down.
43085 has 19 active cash buyers holding roughly 566 properties. With about 3.6 purchases per buyer last year, the money here is concentrated in operators who buy continuously — worth identifying the top few before working the rest.
Typical deal size in 43085 sits around $150,000. An average of $653,000 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.
The dominant play is buy & hold, at 92.8% of tracked activity. Because these buyers underwrite to cash flow, a credible rent figure moves a deal further than a renovation estimate.
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.