Home Flippers' Profits Hit Lowest Since Great Recession
Source: cnbc.com
- Home flippers made their smallest average profit in 17 years last year.
- Gross profits dropped 12% to $72,000 per flip amid high costs.
- Flipping activity fell to a 19-year low of 277,000 homes.
Home flippers - investors who buy, renovate, and quickly resell houses - earned slimmer profits in 2025 than in any year since the Great Recession. Higher renovation costs and softer home prices squeezed margins. This signals cooling in a once-hot real estate niche that affects housing supply and investor confidence.