The Best Markets for First-Time Home Buyers

Even in a tough housing market, there are major cities where owning a home is no more expensive than renting one. According ...
Forbes

8 Tips For First-Time Homebuyers: How To Prepare For Your First Home

Andrea Riquier is a former Staff Writer at Forbes Advisor. She is a New York-based writer covering mortgages and the housing market. She was previously at Dow Jones MarketWatch, on the housing market ...
HousingWire

Creative strategies help first-time buyers enter 2026 housing market

Builders and lenders are increasing incentives like grants, price reductions, and mortgage rate buy-downs for first-time buyers in 2026. NAR sees these trends as key to improved affordability. AI ...
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Lower mortgage rates, higher prices? How Trump’s plan affects first-time buyers

The American housing market in the first half of the 2020s was marked by extraordinarily high prices and limited supply. In 2026, though, a new wrinkle as emerged: mortgage rates are dropping, while ...
HousingWire

First-time homebuyer share at record low, age at record high

First-time homebuyers fell to a historic low of 21% of all U.S. home purchasers this year, according to NAR’s 2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. The share has been cut in half since 2007, as ...
The New York Times

First-Time Home Buyers Are Older Than Ever

“It’s kind of a shocking number,” said an economist with the National Association of Realtors. By Julia Carpenter The path to homeownership continues to get longer, with the median age of first-time ...