16% of single-family houses in one California county are owned by investors

Investors own 87,928 of Orange County’s single-family houses, or 16% of the market.

That’s a highlight of my trusty spreadsheet’s review of first-quarter investor stats from BatchData, which studied ownership of 566,948 houses countywide. Statewide, investors own 19% of all houses. Nationally, the share is 20%.

BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deep into property records, reviewed homeownership in order to identify owner-occupied residences compared with those owned by investors…

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