Were Wall Street Investors Really Buying Up Duval County Homes? My Cash Investor Data (2020–2025)
I’m sure you have heard Trump signs order to limit Wall Street investors in single-family housing.
I think this one has been talked about the most, because of how many Wall Street investors bought single family homes back in 2020-2022. I wanted to see if there was enough search criteria to determine what the percentage was, but the search criteria would not let me zoom in more.
The criteria I used was pulling up cash buyers with either LLCs or Incs that bought single family homes in the years 2020-2025. Now, this is not going to show just the big companies from Wall Street, this will also include the smaller local investors who have LLCs and INCs. I tried to figure out a way to eliminate the local small ones, but there wasn’t a way to do that.
Here’s the list broken down to year, total single family homes in Duval County sold, broken down even more to investors and percentage of how many were investors. Remember the number of the big investors is way smaller than what we see here. Some have even said that the local mom and pops are actually the ones with more single family homes in their portfolios. I did not find a way to break this down, I even thought about excluding names with Duval or Jacksonville in them, but noticed that a big investor uses Jacksonville in their LLC name. These were all cash deals.
- 2020: 15,052 sold, with 2,285 investors. 15.18%
- 2021: 18,115 sold, with 4,732 investors. 26.12%
- 2022: 13543 sold, with 3,758 investors. 27.75%
- 2023: 11,339 sold, with 1,927 investors. 16.99%
- 2024: 11,251 sold, with 1,858 investors. 16.51%
These percentages do seem high, but we have to remember that the way to search was limited and I had to include all investors who paid cash for those years. Some could have been flippers. Here’s some stats along with charts that show investor activity: Charting a 22-year roller coaster of investor activity.
There are a couple exceptions. One, is they will not force any investors to sell off what they currently have in their portfolio. The second is they won’t ban any investors from building single family homes that are all rentals. We actually have a few in Clay County.
What do you think? Do you think it’s too much government over reach? Or do you think it was never really an issue in the real estate market in Northeast Florida?
