What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.
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In Columbus (43214), investors own about 810 tracked properties across 25 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $95,000. 109 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 109 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 60 the year before, up about 82%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
Investor-held stock here dates to a median of 1949. 97.5% of the stock is pre-1980 — budget for older wiring, plumbing and the paperwork that comes with it.
There are 25 buyers paying cash in 43214 today, against a standing position of about 810 properties. That works out to about 4.4 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.
Typical deal size in 43214 sits around $95,000. An average of $150,000 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.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 97.5% of tracked deals. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital here is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
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.