First time buyers, in particular, are having a hard time breaking into the market and getting that key. In fact, a November 2025 report from the National Association of REALTORS found that the share ...

Exclusive data shows that America's first-time homebuyers are actually getting younger — a shocking counter to a viral housing stat Buying a first home is generally considered a young person's game.

The first-time homebuyer market is greying. The National Association of Realtors reported in November that the median first-time buyer in 2025 was 40 years old — up from earlier in the decade to an ...

When I bought my first house in 2010, at age 24, it was the Great Recession, and the housing market—the entire world, really—was off-kilter. A little like it is now. I was newly married, a recent ...

The youngest U.S. homebuyers aren’t so young anymore, as a forbidding market turns first-time house hunting into an activity for people nearing 40. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

In the D.C. region’s slowing housing market, condominium sales are slowing the most. In Arlington County, condo sales are expected to fall 2.1% this year, according to the Northern Virginia ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — How old were you when you bought your first home? According to the National Association of Realtors, the typical age of first-time home buyers climbed to an all-time high of ...

Once a core part of The American Dream, buying a home has become something of a fantasy. Record-high home prices, limited inventory, climbing mortgage rates, and depressed economic conditions are all ...