Buying your first home is a major milestone. However, it comes with major financial responsibilities, including protecting your home with homeowners insurance. While many first-time buyers focus on ...

“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 ...

Homes remained out of reach for many people of first-time home buyer age in the first quarter of the year. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of ...

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First-time homebuyers are typically defined as those entering the market who’ve never owned a home. However, anyone who has not owned a home for the last three years also qualifies as a first-timer.

Stop us if you’ve heard this story before: The housing market remains stuck. Mortgage rates remain stubbornly high. It’s the same case with home prices. Oh, and it’s a terrible time to be a first-time ...

The typical first-time homebuyer is someone in their mid-30s who buys a property roughly 50 miles away from their previous home, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. The ...

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When Trisha Atondo first walked into her interview more than two decades ago, she couldn’t have imagined that answering a ...

Oklahoma City is the most affordable metropolitan area in the country for first-time homebuyers, according to a new report, offering struggling Americans the chance to step on the property ladder ...

Home prices hit an all-time high in June, even as the housing market continued its post-pandemic slump. The median price for an existing home sold last month was $435,300, besting the previous record, ...

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