Market snapshot

79936 (El Paso): Cash Buyer Activity

What cash buyers have been doing here in the last 12 months.

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In El Paso (79936), investors own about 855 tracked properties across 116 active buyers. 79 were acquired in the last 12 months.

116
Active Cash Buyers
855
Investor-Owned Properties
79
Acquisitions (12 mo)

Acquisition Activity

Acquisitions (last 12 mo)79
Acquisitions (last 24 mo)197
Share acquired in last 12 mo9.2%
New construction (30 days)0
New construction (60 days)0
New construction (90 days)0
New construction investments45
Gated contacts available195

Property Characteristics

Top property typeSingle Family Residential
Median building size (sqft)7,048
Average building size (sqft)8,914
Median year built1996
Average year built1994
Built before 198014.0%

Investment Strategy Mix

Buy & Hold84.8%
Value-Add / Rehab14.0%
New Construction1.2%

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Market read

Reading the 79936 market

The trend is downward: 79 purchases against 118 the prior year, a decline of about 33%. Deals take longer to place here, and sellers who price for last year's market will sit.

116 cash buyers are active in 79936, and between them they hold about 855 properties. Fewer than 0.7 purchases per buyer over the past year means buying is thinly spread, so breadth of outreach matters more than any one contact.

Strategy here skews to buy & hold, which accounts for 84.8% 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 1996. Just 14.0% was built before 1980, which keeps renovation scopes and disclosure burdens down.

These numbers come from recorded purchases in this ZIP code, updated as new records land. They report what has already happened and are not a prediction or investment advice.

Answers

Answers to the usual questions

How many investors are active in El Paso?
There are 116 active investors owning 855 tracked properties in El Paso.
How active is the El Paso investor market recently?
79 properties were acquired by investors in the last 12 months in El Paso.
Is there recent new-construction investor activity in El Paso?
0 new-construction homes were acquired by investors in El Paso in the last 90 days.

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