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The Guardian - US
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Cy Neff

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report

A residential housing project in Carlsbad, California, on 8 July 2025.
A residential housing project in Carlsbad, California, on 8 July 2025. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

One in five homes in California is owned by investors, new data reveals, in the latest sign of an affordability crisis that shows no end in sight.

The figures, which come from the data tracker BatchData and were analyzed by the Orange County Register, show that California’s overall percentage of investor home ownership sits at 19%.

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