Higher home prices and mortgage rates are a challenge for first-time buyers, but there's a lot more to the story than that.

Single Gen Z women are outpacing their male counterparts when it comes to buying a home. They accounted for 35% of all ...

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 ...

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, ...

The dream of homeownership is fading for millions of Americans. Figures from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show that only 24% of housing sales last year were by first-time homebuyers — ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The share of first-time buyers in the U.S. housing market fell to 21 ...

With mortgage rates and housing prices still stubbornly elevated, potential homebuyers are looking for ways save wherever they can. The median sale price for a home in the first-quarter of 2025 was ...

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, ...