In economic terms, spending by home investors translated to $42.4 billion in the third quarter, down 26.3% from $57.6 billion a year earlier.
Redfin reported that home purchases by investors fell 30.2% in the United States in the third quarter of 2022, the biggest drop since the Great Recession, apart from the second quarter of 2020, when investor activity plummeted due to at the start of the pandemic.
According to the report, this outpaced a 27.4% drop in overall home purchases across the country. Additionally, investor purchases plunged 26.1% quarter-on-quarter, the largest quarterly decline on record with the exception of the start of the pandemic.
That compares with a 17.4% quarterly drop in overall home purchases. Investors lost market share for the second straight quarter as they curbed buying.
Redfin indicated that they bought about 65,000 homes in metropolitan areas in the third quarter, 17.5% of all homes that were purchased. That’s down from 19.5% in the second quarter and 18.2% a year earlier, this is still higher than the 15% before the pandemic.
In economic terms, spending by home investors translated to $42.4 billion in the third quarter, down 26.3% from $57.6 billion in the prior year and 30.5% down from $61 billion in the previous quarter.
According to the Redfin report, the average house that investors bought cost $451,975 dollars, that is, 6.4% more than the previous year, but 4.3% less than the previous quarter, numbers that are not encouraging for the business.
Because of how this phenomenon is taking place, real estate investors are withdrawing from various places because the prospect of a substantial fall in home prices puts them at risk of losing money.
On the other hand, high interest rates have made investing less attractive because it reduces the profits of real estate companies. For homeowner investors, slowing rental growth makes it harder to make big profits.
Sites where investments plummeted
-Phoenix, fell 49.4%.
-Portland, fell 47.4%.
-Las Vegas, fell 44.8%.
-Sacramento, fell 43.2%.
-Atlanta, fell 42.2%.
–Charlotte, fell 41.7%.
–Miami, fell 37.7%.
–Denver, fell 36.4%.
–San Diego, fell 34.5%.
-Riverside, fell 33.8%.
According to the study, many of the metro areas where investor purchases dropped significantly are places that have skyrocketed in popularity during the pandemic.