First-Time Homebuyer

What started as a housing squeeze 30 years ago is now a full-blown crisis in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. The median home price in San Francisco increased 90% between April 2009 and April 2019, rising from $715,900 to $1.36 million. Other Bay Area communities have experienced similar jumps. Seattle’s housing prices jumped […]

If you turned on the news at any point last year, you’ve heard the housing market was wild in 2021, but what will it bring in 2022? Home prices grew fast to start 2021 and never slowed down. The average house sold for $320,662 at the end of 2021, a 19.6% leap from the previous […]

You don’t have to be married to live out the American dream of owning a home. Co-buying is a way for unmarried individuals to get out of the cycle of renting and begin building equity in a home through shared ownership. It’s been gaining popularity over the last few years with co-buyers purchasing 16.3% of […]

Nearly a third of homes sales go to first-time buyers, a group as enthusiastic as it is inexperienced and whose dreams are as big as its bank accounts are small. There were 2.1 million first-time home buyers in the U.S. in 2017, about 300,000 more than the historical average. The first thing they learn is […]

Few things are more exciting, or terrifying, than buying your first house. You’re joining forces with a spouse or partner, or bravely going alone, on one of life’s great adventures and biggest investments. “The ache for home lives in all of us,” Maya Angelou said. The house hunt sends your hopes soaring, then plunging like […]