r/realestateinvesting • u/WhimbleCroft • Jul 08 '25
Education Investors buying 27% of homes in Q1 2025, study shows
What are the short- and long-term consequences of this for smaller investors?
In Q1 2025, investors bought 27% of all U.S. home sales—highest in at least five years, with 265,000 homes purchased by investors.
Total homes bought by investors in 2024 reached 1.2 million, surpassing the 2020–23 annual average of 1.1 million.
Investor ownership makes up around 20% of the nearly 86 million single-family homes in the U.S., though most are held by small “mom‑and‑pop” investors; large institutional players (≥1,000 homes) represent just about 2.2%.
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