In 1991, individual investors owned 92 percent of the Nation’s rental properties. These investors may be one person, a married couple, or the estate of a deceased person.
The percentage of rental properties owned by individual investors, however, differed for medium- and large-size properties. Individual investors owned three-fourths of 5- to 49-unit properties and one-fifth of properties with 50 or more units.
Incidentally, most properties with 50 or more units were owned by partnerships (56 percent), either limited or general. The top chart on the back shows who owns different types of rental properties.