Austin duplex - who is buying?

[Raj Janakarajan]

I have been looking to buy duplex / fourplex in the Austin market.  I need some information on who is buying the duplexes.  I assume the fourplex is usually bought by investors.  For duplexes, are buyers "mostly" investors or individual/families (with live in one and rent the other unit )?

Raj

[Alex G.]

The only accurate way to answer this is to get list of sold duplexes for the period you're interested in and look up owner's mailing addresses in TCAD. If you have access to MLS you can also go into the sold duplex listings and click on a "Tax" tub to see the owner mailing address info. But keep in mind, it takes a while (3-6 months) for TCAD to update the property record with the new owner's info.