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Flipping rates are on the decline as profit margins hit a recent low. Click through to find out more about this trend.

Auction.com finds that 55% of buyers believe their local market is overvalued and soon expect a market correction.

Profit margins declined in the third quarter of 2021 as prices on flipped homes continued to rise more slowly than they did when investors originally bought their properties.

While flipping activity rose, profit margins continued dropping in 2019, but home flipping rates are still higher than they’ve been in eight years.

Picking the right market is key to flipping homes, and a new report examined where the highest percentages of home sales are for flipping or renting out.

Though recent polls show that real estate investment is on the rise, some first-time house flippers are seeing that as home prices decrease, so do returns.

Overall investor intent in April's survey showed that slightly more than half (50.4 percent) of investors preferred flipping as a strategy, while 48.3 percent of investors said they intended to employ a hold-to-rent strategy. This data compared with 53.5 percent and 44.8 percent, respectively, in Q1. "Most of the country and most investor segments performed in a manner very consistent with what we’ve seen over the past year, but investment strategies in Texas appear to have shifted pretty dramatically," Auction.com EVP Rick Sharga said.

RealtyTrac released its U.S. Home Flipping Report for Q1 2014, reporting that 3.7 percent of all U.S. single-family home sales were flips. Home flipping over all is down, dropping 4.1 percent from the fourth quarter in 2013, as well as declining 6.5 percent from the previous year’s first quarter.