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…