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IRVINE, CA—Flipping of US residential properties dropped below 5% of all sales in the second quarter, according to a report from RealtyTrac. Nearly 31,000 single-family homes were flipped nationwide during the quarter, representing 4.6% of all US single-family home sales, which is down from 5.9% in the first quarter and down from 6.2% in the second quarter of 2013, the firm reports.
In addition, investors averaged a gross profit of more than $46,000 per flip on homes flipped in the second quarter, a 21% gross return on the initial investment. The average gross return was down from 24% in the first quarter and down from 31% a year ago, which was the peak in percentage return on flips nationwide since RealtyTrac began tracking the flipping data in the first quarter of 2011.
According to Daren Blomquist, VP of RealtyTrac, “Home flipping is settling back into a more historically normal pattern after a flurry of flipping during the recent run-up in home prices in 2012 and 2013. Flippers no longer have the luxury of 20% to 30% annual price gains to pad their profits. As the market softens, successful slippers will need to focus on finding properties that they can buy at a discount and to which they can efficiently add value.”
As GlobeSt.com reported in June, several California markets were among those with the most home flips in the previous year, according to a report from RealtyTrac. Los Angeles, San Diego, Inland Empire and Sacramento were listed among the top 22 US markets that saw the greatest number of home flips between April 2013 and March 2014.
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
