Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Dauphin County, investors own about 1,840 tracked properties across 152 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $115,000. 597 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The trend is upward: 597 purchases this year against 451 last, about 32% more. Expect contracts to move faster and price expectations to firm up.
152 cash buyers are active in Dauphin County, and between them they hold about 1,840 properties. Each averaged about 3.9 purchases over the last 12 months, which is the signature of a market worked by repeat, high-volume operators — expect a short list of names to account for most of the deal flow.
Investors here buy at a median of $115,000. The average of $692,000 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.
Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 100.0% of tracked deals. Hold strategies mean patient money: slower decisions, but the rent roll carries more weight than the flip math.
Buying concentrates geographically: 17104, 17103 and 17110 take the largest share of investor purchases in Dauphin County, which makes them the obvious first targets before working outward through the rest of the county.
All figures above reflect recorded transactions in this county and update as records are processed. Past activity only — nothing here is a forecast or investment advice.