A university tries to kick an 89-year-old man out of his home, a new wave of young buyers arrives in the housing market, and long-overdue closure at the site of the 9/11 attacks. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week...
Harvard just put a number on what buyers have been feeling for years. $120,000. That’s the household income now required to afford the monthly payment on a median-priced home in America, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ State of...
40. The average first-time homebuyer in America is now 40 years old. In 1981 it was 29. We added 11 years in one generation — eleven years of rent, missed equity, and someone else's wealth building instead of yours. Market snapshot — April 2026 Existing home...
Only 4.5% of today’s Gen Z demographic are homeowners, compared with 73.1% of baby boomers. According to a new data study from Clever Real Estate, the 68.6% difference marks the largest generational homeownership gap ever recorded. The new study observed that while...
More than two in five (43%) Americans renovated their home in the last year and another 33% plan to renovate in the next year, according to a new survey from Redfin. Roughly two-thirds (65%) of the homeowners surveyed by Redfin who recently renovated their properties...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
