Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Lakewood, investors own about 73 tracked properties across 23 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $355,000. 25 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Buying has picked up in Lakewood. The last 12 months brought 25 investor purchases versus about 14 the year prior — an increase of roughly 79%, which means more bidders on the same contracts.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1969. About 59.7% predates 1980, so lead-paint disclosure, older systems and heavier rehab budgets are normal here.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIPs 98498 and 98499 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Lakewood, and they are the fastest place to start a buyer list before working outward through the rest of the city.
Investor ownership in Lakewood runs to roughly 73 properties, spread across 23 active buyers. Averaging below 1.1 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
Typical deal size in Lakewood sits around $355,000. An average of $691,000 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.
The dominant play is value-add / rehab, at 59.7% of tracked activity. That favors sellers bringing renovation projects: the capital here is set up to take on work, not to avoid it.
All figures above reflect recorded transactions in this city and update as records are processed. Past activity only — nothing here is a forecast or investment advice.