BiggerPockets.com / MemphisInvest.com Release National Survey of Real Estate Investors 9-20-12

[Joshua Dorkin]

Hey Everyone -
I'm excited to share some exciting news with you. This morning, in conjunction with Chris Clothier and the Memphis Invest team, we released an important study of real estate investors, their intentions, and their impact on the housing marketplace.

The study was conducted by a leading global market research firm, ORC International, which has conducted the CCN|ORC International poll since 2007. It included three telephone surveys of 3,036 adults, 1,515 men and 1,521 women 18 years of age and older, living in the continental United States, and interviews were completed on August 9-12,16-19, and 23-26, 2012.

Highlights Include:

- More Than a Third of Investors Plan to Buy More
- Investors spend $9.2 Billion a Year to Repair Housing
- Lower Interest Rates and Access to Credit Top Investor Incentives
- 28.1 Million Americans or 1 in 8, Consider Themselves to be Residential Real Estate Investors or Own Residential Investment Property Today

The complete study report can also be viewed at:
Joint BiggerPockets.com / Memphis Invest National Survey of Residential Real Estate Investors- September 2012

The news release with highlights:
Most Active Real Estate Investors Plan to Buy as Many or More Properties in Next 12 Months - 9/20/12

Coverage from our BiggerPockets Blog:
Joint BiggerPockets.com / Memphis Invest Survey Reveals Investor Trends, Market, & Impact

[Chris Clothier]

For those of you seeing these updates and wondering about the survey and the results it showed, the survey was done by ORC as a CARAVAN study which follows the Code of Standards of American Survey Research Organizations.

In other words, Josh and I - along with many other experienced investors on here - had a good idea what the results would show, but simply saying what our experience tells us has low credibility. We needed to put some weight behind the survey, so we consulted with another great contributor on Bigger Pockets Steve Cook and hired one of the best survey firms in the country.

What resulted was a damn good report with some surprising results on the impact individual real estate investors are having and the impact they want to have.