Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Akron, investors own about 2,554 tracked properties across 212 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $305,000. 845 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Akron has 212 active cash buyers holding roughly 2,554 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged about 4.0 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 845 properties in the last 12 months against roughly 628 the year before — up about 35%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
The median investor purchase lands near $305,000. The average of $489,000 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 value-add / rehab, at 47.7% of tracked activity. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital in this market is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
The median investor-owned home was built around 2006. About 47.7% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIP 44312, 44314 and 44319 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Akron, 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.