More than two-thirds of potential millennial homebuyers say that saving for a down payment is the biggest barrier to purchasing a home, and a fifth of them said that they’ll get financial help from friends or family members to make the purchase, according the new...
About 29 percent of metropolitan-area suburbanites were renters in 2014, up from 23 percent in 2006, according to a report being released Tuesday by New York University's Furman Center real estate think tank and the bank Capital One. The finances of home ownership since the mortgage...
Some people never learn: Polls show that Americans still view their homes as the best and safest place to invest their hard-earned cash. Gallup asked Americans this month to choose the best “long-term investment.” Real estate was the most common pick, ahead of mutual funds, bonds...
First time home buyers, making up over 40% of the market just a few short years ago, now make up less than 30% in 2015. There are a number of reasons why first time home buyers are staying away, including rising home prices, high levels of...
What if the next disruption in real estate is not a new technology? What if the next disruption is instead a generation — a generation that does not value homeownership the way prior generations have. The real estate industry will tell you that millennials have thus...