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Investors are buying half of the homes

Imagine being outbid by a corporation for a single-family home. It’s all too real over the past few years as investor real estate purchases have skyrocketed, boosting housing boom due to pandemic and and pricing many aspiring homebuyers out of the market.

Last year Average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rises to more than 7%. Last year, mortgage rates were at historic lows and demand was high, which sent investors into a frenzy in the housing market. Real estate brokerage Redfin’s new report shows how much of a difference there is in investor residential property purchases between the two years.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, Investor’s home purchases down 45.8% year-over-year, as mortgage rates rose and home prices fell, the Redfin researchers wrote. To add some perspective, the 2008 housing crisis saw a slightly smaller decline with investor purchases falling 45.1%.

For this report, researchers analyzed county records across 40 metropolitan areas in the United States, and they defined an “investor” as any organization or business that purchases residential real estate.

“Investors flock to the housing market in 2021 due to lowest mortgage rates and soaring housing demand, and are currently withdrawing amid predictions that house prices are likely to fall,” the report said.

pandemic outbreak like Las Vegas and Phoenix have seen sharp corrections. In Las Vegas, investor purchases fell 67 percent in the fourth quarter of last year from a year earlier, which Redfin researchers found was the largest drop among the 40 metropolitan areas that they considered.

Phoenix saw a 66.7% drop in the same period. Meanwhile, Nassau County fell 63%, Atlanta fell 62.8% and Charlotte fell 61.9%. They all account for the top half of the 10 biggest drops Redfin reported. The other half, according to the report, includes: Jacksonville (down 57.1% in Q4 2022 year over year), Nashville (-54.8%), Sacramento (-53.5%), Riverside (- 53.0%) and Orlando (-51.8%).

Some of the smallest drops, below 10%, were seen in Milwaukee, New York and Providence. Meanwhile, Baltimore was the only metropolitan city that Redfin analyzed saw an increase in investor home purchases, up 1.4%.

Interestingly, there’s also been a shift in exactly what investors are buying. Redfin researchers found that investor purchases of single-family homes fell 49.8% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2022. The decline was the largest of any any other asset class. For example, investor apartment purchases fell 35.6% and multi-family residential property purchases fell 31.1%. But despite the biggest drop, single-family homes are still a popular choice among investors.

And homebuyers are tightening their wallets, with both premium and median home purchases falling more than 50%. Meanwhile, investors buying affordable homes fell 28.6 percent, according to the report.

However, mortgage rates have fallen slightly this year and some markets are seeing increased activity at the start of the busy season, so investor interest could be rekindled.

“It is possible that investors will start to return to the market this year as mortgage rates have fallen from their 2022 highs — especially if home prices show signs of bottoming out,” the economist and Redfin senior researcher on the report, Sheharyar Bokhari, said. “But it’s unlikely investors will return to the vigor they had in 2021.”

And that could actually be good news for individual buyers, Bokhari added, as they may no longer lose the bidding war with investors.

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