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Share of First-Time Homebuyers Plateaued in 2017 As Home Prices Rose
As home prices increased rapidly from 2016 to 2017, the share of first-time homebuyers held steady at 32 percent of all buyers purchasing existing…
Shared Living Households Continue to Grow
While the recent increase of shared living has been attributed to the large number of millennials moving back in with their parents, the long-term…
Strong Demand Is 'Eating' Tight, Existing Supply on Housing Market
Existing-home sales went up 0.5 percent in December 2017 from November 2017, but the supply of homes for sale at the end of December fell to the…
Home Builders Are Focusing on Affordable Homes, First-Time Homebuyers
U.S. home builder D.R. Horton's Express Homes brand launched in 2014, geared toward first-time homebuyers.…
Builders and Botanists Are Promoting Hemp As a Valuable Construction Tool
Several states in the U.S. have legalized marijuana use for some recreational and medical purposes. New reporting says that one of the biggest…
Two West Coast Housing Markets Are the Hottest in the U.S.
The newly-released Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows that home…
Winter Is the Best Time for Renting
Across the 10 largest metropolitan areas nationwide, apartments were on average 3.9 percent cheaper to rent in the winter compared with the summer…
Historically Low Homeownership Rate Reaches Highest Level in Three Years
The U.S. homeownership rate hit its highest level since the fourth quarter of 2014, per Census Bureau…
Women Are Buying Homes in These 10 U.S. Cities
Women working full-time earn, on average, 80 percent of what their male counterparts earn, according to Census…
Millennial Mobility Trends in 2017
In 2017, 34.9 million Americans moved to a new home, meaning the nation had a 10.9 percent household mobility rate. This new…
