Despite stalled wage growth and fears about the housing market, millennials nationwide are becoming more interested in buying real estate. The number of Google...

A City Council member is formally asking the Department of Housing Preservation and Development increase the amount of grant money available to New Yorkers...

Homeownership in the U.S. is at a 19-year low.

Some hopeful news for first-time buyers in New York City: Half of the 2,500 new Manhattan apartments that will hit the market this fall...

Anybody buying a first home quickly learns how important credit scores are to mortgage lenders. They like them high. But if you’ve been renting...

They’re not yet an endangered species, but their steadily diminishing presence has some real estate analysts worried: First-time buyers are missing in action in...

The country’s most likely first-time homeowners — young professionals and couples starting families — are being forced to hold off purchasing a home, the...

Remember the federal tax credit programs offering $7,500 and later $8,000 to first-time homebuyers? The credits were designed to deliver a jolt to the...

U.S. existing home sales tumbled last month to their lowest levels in more than a decade, according to a monthly report from the National...

The past six months has seen an influx of first-time homebuyers entering the market, looking for a place where they can stay for a...

In anticipation of the looming first-time homebuyer tax credit expiration, home builders are hedging their bets on speculative construction in the hopes that the...

It’s a buyer’s market and many long-time renters are taking advantage. Citing low mortgage rates, reasonable home prices and tax credits for new homebuyers,...