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The real housing story isn't institutional investors — it's the 16% of homes held by small investor LLCs that nobody talks about.
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What you’re looking at
Institutional investors own just 3% of Houston single-family homes. 1 in 6 belongs to a small investor LLC. An ISOTYPE visualization of 1.14 million Harris County parcels from HCAD 2024 certified rolls.
The question behind it
Every headline blames Wall Street. The data says something different. This visualization shows who actually owns Houston's single-family homes — individuals, small LLCs, mid-size investors, and large corporate landlords.
Why it matters
The real housing story isn't institutional investors — it's the 16% of homes held by small investor LLCs that nobody talks about.
Open the full visualizationSources & method
- Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD) 2024 Certified Roll
Method
Entity name normalization, LLC detection, national SFR operator fuzzy matching, and cluster-by-shared-mailing-address across 1.14M SFR parcels (state class A1/A2). Institutional threshold: 25+ homes per cluster.