Investor Activity

September 14, 2022

Are Mega-Investors Behind the Record Price Appreciation?

The share of single-family homes purchased by investors went from 16% in 2020 to 24% in 2021, and the outsized presence of mega-investors raises concerns that they are driving up prices and muscling potential homeowners out of the market.

September 5, 2022

Small Investors Chose to Sell Properties Rather than Rent Them Duri...

Fueled by the housing supply shortage and historically low mortgage rates during the pandemic, both home prices and rents hit new highs. With home price growth at record levels, some single-family investors sold their rental portfolios to extract the equity gains.

August 24, 2022

The Beginning of the End? Single-Family Investor Activity Takes a S...

The share of single-family home purchases made by investors dropped by 8 percentage points from Q1 to Q2, suggesting that these buyers may be more sensitive to interest rate increases than owner-occupied buyers

July 29, 2022

Holidaze: Luxury Priced Home Sales Heated Up in 2021

Demand for luxury homes in vacation destinations intensified with sales surging by triple-digits.

July 7, 2022

Single-Family Investor Activity Bounces Back in the First Quarter o...

Although the real estate market showed signs of receding in Q4 2021, investors resumed their buying spree in early 2022

April 4, 2022

Single-Family Investor Activity Stalls in the Fourth Quarter of 2021

Investors’ recent acquisition spree showed its first signs of slowing down in the fourth quarter of 2021. After hitting historical peaks in the second and third quarters of 2021, the share of homes purchased by investors reached its zenith last October at 26.9% of total home sales

January 26, 2022

iBuyer Activity in 2021 Doubled from Pre-Coronavirus Levels

In addition to elevated demand for owner-occupied and second homes since the onset of the pandemic, there has also been an increase in investor home purchases across the U.S. housing markets.

January 21, 2022

Which Increased More: New or Existing Home Prices?

New home prices up less in 2021, but more over the last decade

December 23, 2021

Single-Family Investor Activity Remained High in the Third Quarter

Much like the record appreciation recorded in the CoreLogic Home Price Index, investor activity hit peaks previously unseen in CoreLogic data in the second quarter of 2021.

October 8, 2021

Single-family Investor Activity Surges in the Second Quarter

2021 is shaping up to be a very different year for investors than 2020. After pulling back their market activity at the onset of the pandemic, investors had a business-as-usual winter, before capturing the highest market share seen in the last 10 years in the second quarter. Figure 1 shows the sh...

August 30, 2021

Investor Activity in the Housing Market

Investor activity in real estate markets during the COVID-19 pandemic has mirrored the market as a whole.

August 30, 2021

Investor Homebuying Report 2011-2020

In this report, we use a new investment indicator to look at investor buying activity from 2011 to 2020 from several different perspectives.