Investors Are Leading the Way in Real Estate Market

Though most real estate market observers have been predicting that rising home prices would drive investors out of the market for single family homes, that fact is that investors have purchased more homes than they did in all of 2012 or 2011. Investors have purchased more than 370,000 properties so far in 2013, which is already more than in either of the previous two full years according to a new investor insight report released today by RealtyTrac. The Real Estate Investor Purchase and Finance Patterns: 2011 to 2013, looks at a number of investor habits relating to real estate purchases since 2011, including the volume of properties purchased, breakdown of cash versus financed purchases, property situation (distressed, non-distressed, underwater etc.), investor purchases by property value, and number of investor-purchased properties that have since resold. A couple of interesting findings 1) Investors have purchased more than $1 trillion in US real estate since 2011. Fifty-four percent were all-cash; 2) Among all investor purchases during the time period, 57 percent have subsequently been re-sold. The smart money still sees the real estate market as a solid long term investment.