Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Obetz, investors own about 218 tracked properties across 20 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $100,000. 15 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is cooling: 15 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 23 the year before, down about 35%. Fewer buyers are competing per deal, which usually means more room to negotiate but a longer search for the right one.
Investors here buy at a median of $100,000. The average of $322,000 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.
The dominant play is buy & hold, at 54.9% 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.
Investor-held stock here dates to a median of 1991. 43.6% of the stock is pre-1980 — budget for older wiring, plumbing and the paperwork that comes with it.
Deal flow clusters in 43207, 43125 and 43137. Those ZIPs lead Obetz on investor purchases, so they repay attention first before working outward through the rest of the city.
Obetz has 20 active cash buyers holding roughly 218 properties. Averaging below 0.8 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
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.