Investors Are Making Up the Highest Share of Homebuyers in 5 Years

CNBC, Oct. 7, 2025-Diana Olick
Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from 27% in the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last five years, according to a report from CJ Patrick Co., using numbers from BatchData, a real estate data provider. Investors accounted for 25.7% of residential home sales in 2024.
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