42.6% of Detroit's 7,598 arm's-length home purchases recorded in the twelve months to 2025-07 went to an LLC, trust or corporation rather than a household. In 28 of 115 neighborhoods with at least 20 sales, companies bought the majority. Source: grantee names on deeds recorded with the City of Detroit Assessor — including the cash and off-MLS purchases listing-based reports never see.
| Neighborhood | Company share | Company buyers | Median sale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chalfonte | 72% | 21 of 29 | $5,000 |
| Conner Creek | 66% | 43 of 65 | $52,500 |
| Davison-Schoolcraft | 65% | 15 of 23 | $62,000 |
| North End | 63% | 22 of 35 | $249,000 |
| Mount Olivet | 62% | 21 of 34 | $74,000 |
| Yorkshire Woods | 61% | 54 of 88 | $65,000 |
| Plymouth-Hubbell | 61% | 46 of 75 | $64,000 |
| Von Steuben | 60% | 40 of 67 | $60,000 |
| Pulaski | 60% | 42 of 70 | $62,500 |
| Outer Drive-Hayes | 60% | 81 of 136 | $58,000 |
| Hubbell-Lyndon | 60% | 29 of 48 | $58,500 |
| Wade | 59% | 17 of 29 | $67,000 |
| Holcomb Community | 58% | 50 of 86 | $64,750 |
| Fiskhorn | 57% | 24 of 42 | $60,000 |
| Chandler Park | 57% | 12 of 21 | $45,000 |
Neighborhoods with fewer than 20 arm's-length sales are excluded from per-neighborhood claims (a percentage of a dozen sales is noise) but included, flagged, in the CSV. Beyond these sales, 7,265 additional transfers in the window were Land Bank or government conveyances, excluded from the arm's-length base.
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Every property transfer recorded with the City of Detroit Assessor in the window 2024-07 to 2025-07 was classified by grantee name: names containing corporate markers (LLC, Inc, Trust, LP, Corp and variants) are counted as company purchases; all others as household purchases. Non-arm's-length transfers — quitclaims at nominal prices, family transfers, Land Bank and government conveyances — are excluded from the base. The window deliberately ends twelve months before publication because Detroit deed recordings backfill for a year or more; comparing like-aged windows avoids mistaking recording lag for a market collapse. Limitations: a small number of owner-occupants purchase through LLCs or trusts, and nonprofit and builder purchases are counted as company buyers — both inflate the company share slightly and neither can be separated from grantee names alone.
42.6% of the 7,598 arm's-length home sales recorded 2024-07 to 2025-07 were bought by an LLC, trust or corporation rather than a household — measured from the grantee name on each recorded deed, so cash and off-MLS purchases are counted.
Companies bought the majority of homes in 28 of the 115 neighborhoods with at least 20 recorded arm's-length sales — led by Chalfonte (72%) and Conner Creek (66%). The full table and CSV cover all 179 neighborhoods.
They come from deeds recorded with the Detroit Assessor, not from listings. A large share of Detroit transactions — cash, wholesale, FSBO — never touch a listing service, and investor purchases are concentrated in exactly that off-MLS segment, so listing-based investor statistics undercount it.