41% of the Current Homes Listed on the Market in Grand Prairie Are Owned by Investors

How investor ownership is reshaping Grand Prairie’s housing market — and what it means for sellers, buyers, and the future of our community.

This article is brought to you by Jenna Pecor with Bancroft Realty. Jenna is a Grand Prairie-based agent and a Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES®) who has been helping Grand Prairie families buy and sell homes since 2014.

When people talk about housing affordability, the conversation usually circles around one thing: inventory. How many homes are available? Is there enough supply? But in Grand Prairie, the real story is deeper. It’s not just about the number of homes — it’s about who owns them and who is selling them.

According to Realtor, about 16% of current listings nationwide are owned by investors. In Grand Prairie, that number is more than double — 41%, or 147 out of 357 active listings. (And I know, because I manually looked through each listing’s tax roll and counted them myself.)

Of those 147 investor-owned listings, 32 are new builds. But here’s the catch — these weren’t simply listed by builders. Many builders, facing slower sales and high prices, have turned to investors to move inventory. That means brand-new homes, which should have been opportunities for families, are already in investor hands before they ever had a fair chance on the open market. The remaining 115 homes are resales — properties that investors previously bought and now are putting back up for sale.

And it matters what kind of investors we’re talking about. Roughly a quarter of investor-owned homes here belong to local “mom-and-pop” landlords, but the majority are controlled by LLCs and corporations, many of them based outside our community. These aren’t neighbors building wealth with one rental property. They’re companies treating houses like numbers in a portfolio.

This is where affordability and equity collide. People often talk about making