Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Summit County, investors own about 6,313 tracked properties across 328 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $324,000. 1,682 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Summit County has 328 active cash buyers holding roughly 6,313 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 accelerating. Investors bought 1,682 properties in the last 12 months against roughly 1,493 the year before — up about 13%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
The median investor purchase lands near $324,000. The average of $407,000 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 45.9% 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.
The median investor-owned home was built around 2020. Only about 25.2% predates 1980, so the stock skews newer and rehab scopes tend to be lighter.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 44203, 44685 and 44312 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Summit County, 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 county.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this county and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.