Investor purchase activity, drawn from the last 12 months of records.
Data last updated
In Pierce County, investors own about 2,551 tracked properties across 120 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $762,000. 1,067 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Buying has picked up in Pierce County. The last 12 months brought 1,067 investor purchases versus about 551 the year prior — an increase of roughly 94%, which means more bidders on the same contracts.
120 cash buyers are active in Pierce County, and between them they hold about 2,551 properties. That works out to about 8.9 deals per buyer in 12 months. Volume like that comes from professional operators rather than occasional purchasers, and a few names will dominate your pipeline.
Typical deal size in Pierce County sits around $762,000. An average of $6,399,000 against that median means a handful of large purchases are skewing the mean. Use the median when you price, or you will aim high and lose the middle of the market.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 43.2% of tracked deals. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital here is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1982. About 43.2% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Within Pierce County, 98391, 98374 and 98445 see the heaviest investor activity — start there before working outward through the rest of the county.
Counts and prices here are drawn from recorded investor purchases in this county and refresh with new records. They are a record of past activity, not a forecast or investment advice.