How many real estate investors (SFH) exist in 2020 in the US?
Start with this 2012 post by Joshua Dorkens stating there are 28.1 Million "Real Estate Investors" in the US. Bigger pockets post
According to Biggerpockets stats https://www.biggerpockets.com/stats , over 1000+ new members signup every day and at the time of this post, they have 1.6 million+ members.
Jump onto Facebook and I see lots of investor groups in the 50k - 100k range but nothing larger.
Talking to some real estate software providers, they have between 300 - max of 20k paying users.
I am interested in finding out how many people are not "learning", but are actively looking every week for a new investment property to buy/flip/wholesale AND ARE ACTUALLY BUYING? How many investors are purchasing multiple homes every year? Does anyone have a good scale on this number or have any resources I could dig into?
My hypothesis is the US has 30,000 active investors but it's just a guess so posing this question to see if anyone has done any actual research into this number?
As a side discussion. With 85-95 million SFH in the unites states, lots of opportunities. :)