Woman holding sold sign for their new house
Forbes
Only four out of 10 first-time home buyers in the U.S. are married, according to a new analysis by Zillow. Compare that to when a majority, or 52 percent, of first-time buyers were married back in the late 1980s.
“First-time home buyers today are typically older, spend more time in rental housing, are less likely to be married and are buying more expensive homes than they were in previous decades,” Economic Analyst Cody Fuller stated in the report, which found the median age of first-time buyers is 32.5 years old — up from 30.4 in the late ’80s.