Investor purchase activity, drawn from the last 12 months of records.
Data last updated
In Dayton, investors own about 4,676 tracked properties across 371 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $80,000. 1,104 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The median investor purchase lands near $80,000. The gap between that median and the $1,045,000 average is the story here — a few outsized trades, with the real volume well underneath them.
Buying concentrates geographically: 45417, 45406 and 45410 take the largest share of investor purchases in Dayton, which makes them the obvious first targets before working outward through the rest of the city.
Across Dayton, 371 active buyers account for approximately 4,676 investor-held properties. Averaging below 3.0 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
Volume held at 1,104 investor purchases over 12 months, versus roughly 1,100 the year prior. Neither competition nor opportunity has shifted much.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 89.8% of tracked deals. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital here is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 1943. 89.8% of the stock is pre-1980 — budget for older wiring, plumbing and the paperwork that comes with it.
Counts and prices here are drawn from recorded investor purchases in this city and refresh with new records. They are a record of past activity, not a forecast or investment advice.