Investor purchase activity, drawn from the last 12 months of records.
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In Puyallup, investors own about 42 tracked properties across 18 active buyers, with a median investor purchase price near $370,000. 12 were acquired in the last 12 months.
Investors bought 12 properties here over 12 months, up roughly 140% from about 5 a year earlier. Rising volume usually means capital returning to the market rather than leaving it.
18 cash buyers are active in Puyallup, and between them they hold about 42 properties. Averaging below 0.7 purchases per buyer last year, this is a wide, shallow pool — a numbers game where reach beats depth.
The median investor purchase lands near $370,000. The gap between that median and the $1,174,000 average is the story here — a few outsized trades, with the real volume well underneath them.
Strategy here skews to value-add / rehab, which accounts for 61.3% of tracked deals. Buyers geared for renovation will look at stock that would not trade in a new-construction market.
Investor-held stock here dates to a median of 1971. With 61.3% built before 1980, expect pre-1978 disclosure obligations and aging mechanicals on most of what trades.
Activity is not spread evenly. ZIPs 98371, 98372 and 98374 are absorbing the most investor purchases in Puyallup, and they are the fastest place to start a buyer list before working outward through the rest of the city.
Figures describe recorded investor purchases in this city and are refreshed as new records are processed. They describe past activity and are not a forecast or investment advice.