All-cash sales made up 37.9% of the single-family property sales in the second quarter of 2014, a fall from 42% in the first quarter, which marked a three-year high for cash sales.
But cash sales in the second quarter of 2014 were still above 2013’s second quarter, when 35.7% of all sales were in cash, according to the Q2 2014 U.S. Institutional Investor & Cash Sales Report from RealtyTrac.
While the cash sales decline is moderate, the share of those sales from institutional investors, entities that purchase at least 10 properties in a calendar year, fell in the second quarter to 4.7%, which marks the lowest level since the first quarter of 2012.
via RealtyTrac: Cash purchases disappearing from home sales | 2014-08-19 | HousingWire.