Investor purchase activity, drawn from the last 12 months of records.
Data last updated
In Portland (97236), investors own about 130 tracked properties across 39 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $280,000. 33 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Acquisition pace is accelerating: 33 properties bought in the last 12 months against roughly 23 the year before, up about 43%. Competition for contracts is rising, and buyers who were quiet a year ago are active again.
Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 50.6% of tracked deals. Buy-and-hold capital prices for yield rather than resale margin, so rent support matters more to these buyers than after-repair comps.
Typical construction year on investor-owned property is 1997. About 43.7% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
97236 has 39 active cash buyers holding roughly 130 properties. Each averaged under 0.8 purchases over the last 12 months, so the pool is broad rather than concentrated: more names to work, with less riding on any single relationship.
Investors here buy at a median of $280,000. The average of $402,000 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.
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.