The following is sponsored content part of 11Alive's Money Moves partnership with Delta Community Credit Union. If you're a first-time homebuyer and feeling overwhelmed, you're not alone. Between ...

For some first-time homeowners, year one can serve as a crash course — from finance to maintenance to design — following an already complex purchase process. The barriers are high, and those who ...

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 ...

A first-time home buyer class can be the ticket to grants, down payment assistance and a lower monthly payment. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of ...

There were marginal improvements in home affordability in the third quarter of 2025, this data analysis finds.

Buying a home in the fourth quarter of 2024 would have been like finding dirt-cheap eggs — difficult. Though home prices decreased slightly and the number of homes crept up, the market remained ...

WalletHub and SmartAsset released their rankings of the best U.S. cities for first-time home buyers. Cities in Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and Arizona ranked as some of the best places to buy a first ...

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.

62% of Black homebuyers purchased their first home last year, amid a nationwide downturn. While first-time homebuyer rates have dropped nationwide, Black buyers have seen the strongest rebound, ...

“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 ...

For many American adults, buying a home for the first time is a key financial achievement, as well as a symbol of independence. However, the ability to achieve this milestone has changed over recent ...

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 ...