08 Oct Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years – CNBC
By Diana Olick
Key Points
- Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.
- That is an increase from 27% in the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last five years, according to a report from CJ Patrick Co., using numbers from BatchData.
- Institutional investors are selling more homes than they buy and have been for six consecutive quarters.
Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from 27% in the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last five years, according to a report from CJ Patrick Co., using numbers from BatchData, a real estate data provider. Investors accounted for 25.7% of residential home sales in 2024.
While the share of sales is higher, the raw numbers are lower. Investors in the second quarter of this year bought 16,000 fewer homes than a year ago, but home sales overall were much weaker this year than last year. That accounts for the gain in the investor share. Investors continue to own about 20% of the 86 million single-family homes in the country. Read more…