{"id":112,"date":"2025-07-12T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:09:51","slug":"u-s-investors-scooping-up-homes-faster-than-would-be-buyers-data-shows-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"U.S. investors scooping up homes faster than would-be buyers, data shows – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Real estate investors are snapping up a bigger share of U.S. homes on the market as rising prices and stubbornly high borrowing costs freeze out many other would-be homebuyers.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 27 per cent of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors \u2014 the highest share in at least five years, according to a report by real estate data provider BatchData.<\/p>\n

Between 2020 and 2023, the share of homes bought by investors averaged 18.5 per cent.<\/p>\n

All told, investors bought 265,000 homes in the January-March quarter, an increase of 1.2 per cent from the same period a year earlier, the firm said.<\/p>\n

Despite the modest annual increase, the rise in the share of investor home purchases is more a reflection of how much the housing market has slowed as traditional buyers face growing affordability constraints, according to BatchData.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. housing market has been in a sales slump since early 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Home sales fell last year to their lowest level in nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019ve remained sluggish so far this year, as many prospective homebuyers have been discouraged by elevated mortgage rates and home prices that have kept climbing, though more slowly.<\/p>\n

As home sales have slowed, properties are taking longer to sell. That\u2019s led to a sharply higher inventory of homes on the market, benefitting investors and other home shoppers who can afford to bypass current mortgage rates by paying in cash or tapping home equity gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs traditional buyers struggle with affordability, investors with cash and financing advantages are stepping in to maintain transaction volume,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

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BatchData analyzes U.S. home sales records to determine which properties were purchased by investors. These could include vacation homes or rentals, but not a homebuyer\u2019s primary residence.<\/p>\n