Recorded investor purchases and holdings over the past year.
Data last updated
In Lakewood (98499), investors own about 23 tracked properties across 8 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $350,000. 4 were acquired in the last 12 months.
The dominant play is value-add / rehab, at 81.8% of tracked activity. Rehab-oriented money rewards deals other buyers pass on, so condition matters less here than margin.
There are 8 buyers paying cash in 98499 today, against a standing position of about 23 properties. Averaging below 0.5 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
At 4 purchases this year against 4 last, pace is essentially unchanged, which makes this market easier to forecast than most.
The median investor purchase lands near $350,000. An average of $395,000 that close to the median means one price band describes nearly the whole market.
The median investor-owned home was built around 1948. 81.8% of the stock is pre-1980 — budget for older wiring, plumbing and the paperwork that comes with it.
All figures above reflect recorded transactions in this ZIP code and update as records are processed. Past activity only — nothing here is a forecast or investment advice.