Home Flippers’ Profit Margins Drop to 17-Year Low as Costs Climb: Report

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Home Flippers’ Profit Margins Drop to 17-Year Low as Costs Climb: Report

Georgia remains a hotbed of flipping activity.

Home Flippers’ Profit Margins Drop to 17-Year Low as Costs Climb: Report

A propriety for sale in Elkridge, Md., on Sept. 2, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

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High costs for residential investment properties are leading to dwindling profit margins for home flippers.

Profits for home flipping—buying a residential property with the intention of creating value through improvements and then quickly putting it back on the market—have fallen steadily since their peak in the fall of 2012, a recent report by real estate analytics company Attom found.

Rob Sabo

Rob Sabo has worked as a business journalist for nearly two decades and covers a broad range of business topics for The Epoch Times.

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