Cash-buyer and investment activity over the last 12 months.
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In Akron (44305), investors own about 145 tracked properties across 50 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $176,000. 64 were acquired in the last 12 months.
44305 has 50 active cash buyers holding roughly 145 properties. Over the last 12 months they averaged under 1.3 purchases each, so the buyer pool is broad rather than concentrated: more names to work, with fewer deals riding on any single relationship.
Acquisition pace is steady. Investors bought 64 properties in the last 12 months, close to the 67 they bought the year before, so the buyer pool here has held its footing rather than swinging with the headlines.
The median investor purchase lands near $176,000. The average of $518,000 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 90.7% 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 1928. About 90.7% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this ZIP code and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.