"According to the report, 10.8% of all homes purchased in Q2 2025 were bought by real estate investors, up 0.1 percentage point compared to a year prior. However, this is still below the peak of 12.1% reported in Q2 2022. In total, during the first half of 2025, investors purchased roughly 257,000 homes, down 1.8% year-over-year. Overall home sales fell by 3.8% during the same time period."
"On the sell side, investors sold 9.2% of all homes sold in Q2 2025, the same as a year ago. In total, investors purchased roughly 41, 000 more homes than they sold during the first half of 2025. This gap is 10.8% wider than the first half of 2024, which the report attributes to easing investor selling activity. Overall, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors have purchase roughly 726,000 more homes than they have sold,"
Investor purchases accounted for 10.8% of home purchases in Q2 2025, a 0.1 percentage-point increase from a year earlier but below the Q2 2022 peak of 12.1%. Investors bought roughly 257,000 homes in the first half of 2025, a 1.8% year-over-year decline, while overall home sales fell 3.8%. Investor sales represented 9.2% of homes sold in Q2 2025, unchanged year-over-year. Investors purchased about 41,000 more homes than they sold in H1 2025, widening the gap 10.8% versus H1 2024 due to reduced selling. Since the pandemic onset, investors have net-purchased about 726,000 homes, exerting downward pressure on the homeownership rate. Geographic concentration is high in Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, and metros such as Memphis, St. Louis, and Kansas City, with large price differentials between markets where investors buy below median prices and those where they pay premiums.
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