If 2026 is your year to purchase a home, here are key things to do to increase your chance for finding your dream spot.

The cooling housing market is offering a chance for people who have been sitting on the sidelines to pursue homeownership, ...

Buying a home is the largest purchase most people will make in their lifetime. In today’s market of high mortgage rates, low inventory, and high prices, that big financial decision can quickly become ...

When I bought my first house in 2010, at age 24, it was the Great Recession, and the housing market—the entire world, really—was off-kilter. A little like it is now. I was newly married, a recent ...

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It was almost midnight when the smoke detector went off again. Angel Santiago expected his new home to have some quirks: It was built in Salem in 1812. But he’d failed to uncover why the attic smoke ...

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 ...

Demand from first-time home buyers has hit record lows with mortgage rates stuck near 7%. One corner of the market shows it is worryingly weak even with rates at 5%. Big home builders such as D.R.

WalletHub ranked 300 US cities to reveal the best and worst places for first-time homebuyers. Cities were scored on 22 factors, from housing costs and weather to crime rates and school quality. Most ...