Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Hilliard, investors own about 1,459 tracked properties across 51 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $172,000. 260 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Hilliard has 51 active cash buyers holding roughly 1,459 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged about 5.1 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 260 properties in the last 12 months against roughly 680 the year before — down about 62%. 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 $172,000. The average of $434,000 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 84.7% 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 2014. Only about 14.8% predates 1980, so the stock skews newer and rehab scopes tend to be lighter.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 43016, 43026 and 43221 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Hilliard, 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 city.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this city and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.