There have been significant changes in the housing market in recent months. Examples: The all-cash share of home purchases has dropped to its lowest level since 2009. The number of institutional investor buyers is at a 15-year low. Distressed sales ...

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Charlotte was still the nation’s second-hottest market for institutional investors buying homes as rental properties in the first quarter of this year, according to RealtyTrac, a California-based real estate information and analytics provider. The company also reported that the median ...

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Institutional investors bought nearly 18 percent of all single-family homes sold in Mecklenburg County in 2012, and own one in every 31 homes in the county, one of the highest rates in the country, according to figures released Thursday by ...

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Charlotte ranks fifth among regions with the most homes sold to institutional investors between January 2012 and August, but so far the equity gained in those homes trails behind six of the regions in the top 10, according to real ...

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Institutional investor activity ticked up in the Charlotte housing market and the percentage of home sales that were paid for with cash continued to rise during the first quarter of 2014, a new RealtyTrac report shows. During that time, 13.1 ...

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How much of your neighborhood is owned by Wall Street? Over the last few years, institutional investors have helped stabilize the housing market by buying up distressed homes across the country and putting them back on the market as rentals. ...

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CHARLOTTE – More homebuyers paid with cash in October – and not just institutional investors, who bought a smaller share of the homes sold, while cash purchases overall topped 50 percent for the first time in 19 months. “We have ...

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CHARLOTTE – Institutional investors are snapping up 60 percent of the newer homes for sale in North Carolina, according to an analysis by RealtyTrac. The real estate data firm defines these investors as people who bought at least 10 properties ...

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The Charlotte metro area continues to be a hotbed of institutional investor homebuying, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac. Among the 50 metro areas with populations of 1 million or more, Charlotte in September ranked 5th in the rate homes bought by institutional investors, at 17 percent. The only regions with a higher rate were Atlanta, Las Vegas, St. Louis and Jacksonville, Fla., which ranged from 23 percent to 29 percent. Close behind Charlotte were Memphis, Tenn., Richmond, Va., Dallas and San Antonio, Texas.

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