Utah’s first-time home-buying assistance program provides $20,000 toward the purchase of a newly-constructed home.

Modest improvements in affordability lowered the median age of first-time homebuyers from 36 to 35 between 2024 and 2025.

(InvestigateTV) — With high interest rates and limited inventory in many parts of the country, first-time home buyers are having a tough time achieving a piece of the American dream. Sam Huisache, a ...

For many first-time buyers, starter homes feel like an endangered species. In hundreds of cities nationwide, so-called starter homes now cost $1 million or more.¹ Even in areas where prices are lower, ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The American dream for some time was working in your 20s to save up and get a house by 30 years old. Now, that median home buying age is a lot later nationwide. First-time homebuyers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fewer first-time buyers are taking the plunge into homeownership. Research from the National Association of Realtors shows the percentage of first-time ...

A mortgage expert has shared the biggest homebuying headaches first-time buyers face, from unexpected moving costs and rent ...

“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 ...

Four years ago, the median age at which people purchased their first home in the U.S. was 33 years old. Now the age has sharply increased to 40 years old, a record high, according to a National ...