--- title: All-Cash Home Sales Are Booming in These Cities Thanks to High Mortgage Rates description: In one market, more than 72% of home sales were from all-cash offers, a report found. authors: - name: Pete Grieve role: Lead News Reporter url: https://money.com/author/pete-grieve/ bio: Pete Grieve is a personal finance reporter at Money who frequently covers news stories about housing topics including home buying, mortgage rates and homeowners insurance. education: University of Chicago, BA Political Science at_money_since: 2022 articles: 597 covers: - Housing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/pete_grieve - https://linkedin.com/in/pete-grieve-b5aa02138 - https://www.facebook.com/petegrieve4 published: '2023-02-28T19:51:49.000Z' modified: '2024-01-10T14:37:07.000Z' section: Housing tags: - News word_count: 446 canonical: https://money.com/all-cash-home-sales-booming-cities/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Sold sign in front yard of house](https://img.money.com/2023/02/News-Buying-Homes-with-Cash.jpg) As high [mortgage rates](https://money.com/current-mortgage-rates/) discourage many Americans from making offers for homes, all-cash buyers are swooping in. Last year, [all-cash sales](https://money.com/why-home-sellers-cash-offers-lower-bids/) — in which buyers forked over the entire home price up front rather than financing it over time — represented a majority of all transactions in some markets, according to an [analysis by Attom](https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/home-sales-prices/attom-year-end-2022-u-s-home-sales-report/), a property data provider. Nationally, more than 36% of single-family home and condo purchases were cash deals, which is an increase from about 23% in 2020. Several recent reports show a similar trend. The [National Association of Realtors reports](https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/existing-home-sales-descended-0-7-in-january) that the share of all-cash sales of existing homes was 29% in January, up from 27% the year before. And a [Redfin analysis](https://money.com/cities-most-cash-home-sales/) showed that about 31% of home purchases in December were all cash, compared to 29% in December 2021. ## What experts say The share of all-cash home purchases has been elevated since 2021, when the real estate market was [red-hot](https://money.com/real-estate-records-set-2021/), but the reasons have changed. - When the market was [highly competitive](https://money.com/how-hard-to-buy-house-2022/) and mortgage rates were low, offering cash was a way to increase your chance of ultimately closing on a home that could get multiple different offers, says Nadia Evangelou, senior economist at the NAR. - [Now](https://money.com/housing-recession-2023/), the large percentage of cash purchases reflects a trend of buyers who have the means looking to avoid interest payments due to the high costs of borrowing money for a home, Evangelou says. - Meanwhile, others who can’t make cash offers may wait on the sidelines hoping for home price or mortgage rates to drop. ## Where buyers are paying cash Here are the 10 metropolitan areas with the highest shares of all-cash purchases in 2022, according to Attom: 1. Augusta, Georgia (72.1% of sales) 2. Columbus, Georgia (69%) 3. Athens, Georgia (60.6%) 4. Flint, Michigan (59.5%) 5. Gainesville, Georgia (58.9%) 6. Detroit, Michigan (58.8%) 7. Naples, Florida (58.2%) 8. Macon, Georgia (57.1%) 9. Atlanta, Georgia (53.5%) 10. Youngstown, Ohio (51.5%) ## Bottom line Buyers with cash are in a fairly good position to buy because home prices have been [cooling](https://money.com/housing-market-cooldown-signs-predictions/) and [buyer demand](https://money.com/its-a-buyers-market-so-why-arent-more-people-buying-homes-right-now/) is way down due to high [mortgage rates](https://money.com/what-7-percent-rates-mean-for-buyers-sellers-and-housing-market/). “Cash buyers — many, but not all of whom are investors — are in a position of competitive advantage in today’s higher interest-rate environment,” Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at Attom, said in its report. And the situation isn't expected to change any time soon. 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