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San Antonio stands out at 8.6% institutional — nearly 3× the Texas average. Fort Worth has the highest small-investor concentration at 23.7%. Austin at 0.5% institutional is an outlier in the other direction.
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What you’re looking at
A five-city ISOTYPE unit chart of 3.1 million SFR parcels across Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, and Travis counties. San Antonio's institutional ownership rate is nearly triple the state average. Austin is barely touched.
The question behind it
Compare corporate and small-investor landlord concentration across Texas's five largest metros using certified appraisal district data.
Why it matters
San Antonio stands out at 8.6% institutional — nearly 3× the Texas average. Fort Worth has the highest small-investor concentration at 23.7%. Austin at 0.5% institutional is an outlier in the other direction.
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- HCAD 2024
- DCAD 2024
- TAD 2024
- BCAD 2024–25
- TCAD 2025 Certified
Method
Entity name normalization, LLC detection, national SFR operator fuzzy matching, and cluster-by-shared-mailing-address across 3.16M SFR parcels (state class A1/A2) in five counties. Institutional threshold: 25+ homes per cluster. Cross-county deduplication applied.