Real Estate Investors Account For 33% of Q2 2025 Home Purchases According to Q2 2025 Investor Pulse™ Report From BatchData 

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Real estate investors purchased 33% of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025, the highest percentage of investor purchases in the last five years according to the Q2 2025 Investor Pulse™ Report from BatchData. The percentage of homes purchased by investors increased from just under 27% in the first quarter of 2025 and rose over seven points from the 25.7% of residential homes purchased by investors in 2024. Investors continue to own roughly 20% of the 86 million single-family residential homes in the country. 

“Interestingly, while the percentage of single-family homes purchased by investors rose to a five-year high, the actual number of homes purchased during the second quarter of 2025 was 16,000 fewer than a year ago,” said BatchData Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer Ivo Draginov. “So the relatively high percentage of home purchases by investors is at least partly due to overall home sales being weaker in Q2 2025 than they were in Q2 2024.” 

The Investor Pulse Report is a quarterly publication providing strategic market intelligence on investor activity in U.S. single-family residential housing. The report analyzes ownership patterns, transaction trends, pricing strategies, and geographic distribution to deliver actionable insights for real estate professionals, policymakers, and market participants. The report is prepared using data provided by BatchData and other sources by business intelligence firm CJ Patrick Company. 

Mom-and-Pop Investors Continue to Dominate Investor Activity
Small investors who owned between one and five properties held 87% of the single-family homes owned by investors; those owning six to 10 properties owned another 4%. So contrary to popular opinion, the real estate investment market is not controlled by large institutional investors. In fact, the largest investors – those owning 1,000 or more properties – account for just 2% of all investor-owned homes. Significantly, the largest investors appear to be pruning their inventory rather than adding to it: Q2 2025 was the sixth consecutive quarter where the largest investors sold more properties (5,801) than they bought (4,069).