What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.
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In Gahanna (43230), investors own about 1,086 tracked properties across 37 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $131,000. 409 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 409 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 21 the year before, up about 1848%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
Investors here buy at a median of $131,000. The average of $228,000 sits well above it, so a tail of higher-priced deals is pulling the mean up — most activity happens below the average, and pricing off the median is the safer read.
64.3% of tracked activity in 43230 is buy & hold. Buy-and-hold capital prices for yield rather than resale margin, so rent support matters more to these buyers than after-repair comps.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 1988. Just 35.7% was built before 1980, which keeps renovation scopes and disclosure burdens down.
Investor ownership in 43230 runs to roughly 1,086 properties, spread across 37 active buyers. With about 11.1 purchases per buyer last year, the money here is concentrated in operators who buy continuously — worth identifying the top few before working the rest.
These numbers come from recorded purchases in this ZIP code, updated as new records land. They report what has already happened and are not a prediction or investment advice.