Millennials

Millennials Don’t Want Your Big Houses, Unless They Do

By Bethany Erickson / July 8, 2019 /

It started as a drumbeat last March, as Candace Taylor of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Baby Boomers who built million-dollar, large homes, suddenly were finding it difficult to unload them because Millennial buyers (the next market of age to buy a home after Gen Xers) were disinterested in (or couldn’t afford) the homes.…

Americans Want to Save Enough to Retire, But Doubt It Will Happen

By CandysDirt / June 29, 2019 /

From staff reports Not quite 20 percent of Americans surveyed by LendEDU said their goal was to save enough to retire one day, but almost 40 percent of them felt that goal was unattainable. The survey was released earlier this month, and polled 1,000 Americans to understand their financial goals and their confidence that they…

Local Market Cool Down? Research Indicates Wave of New Buyers Coming

By Bethany Erickson / May 13, 2019 /

While the housing market might be lightly tapping the brakes as of late, a new report found that a wave of new buyers is coming — although how robustly they arrive will vary from city to city. While there was an impressive wave of first-time home buyers over the last decade, Zillow did the math…

How Do Millennials Define ‘Wealthy’? For One, They Don’t Think They Are

By CandysDirt / March 24, 2019 /

From staff reports Across all income brackets, Millennials said they don’t think they are wealthy, a new survey of 1,000 people who fall in the 23-38 age bracket conducted by LendEDU revealed. The company set out to find out how the generation that is eclipsing the Baby Boomer generation frames personal finance and the concept…

Four Percent Say Buying a New Home Is a Goal in 2019

By Bethany Erickson / January 21, 2019 /

Who is most likely to have home buying as a goal this year? Will remodeling and home improvement spending continue to grow?  We look at this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Four Percent List Home Buying a 2019 Goal Four percent (about 10 million Americans) said buying a new home…