First time home buyers

Over half of mortgage industry executives anticipate first-time home buyer growth in 2018, estimating that market will grow at a faster pace than the overall housing market, according to Genworth Financial.

As the economy improves and millennials move around the country in search of jobs, some are finding themselves far from the youth culture they learned to expect from city life in other parts of the country.

With home values projected to rise in every major U.S. metro in 2018, a 20% down payment will cost thousands of dollars more, according to Zillow.

Serious delinquencies on Federal Housing Administration loans popular among first-time home buyers with affordability constraints have improved this year, but may be reaching a plateau.

Millennials took advantage of lower interest rates in September to refinance their mortgages, according to Ellie Mae.

Homes on Staten Island are reaching "unaffordable levels," at a time when there are less homes on the market than buyers who want to purchase them.

Recent home buyers found it easier getting a mortgage compared with last year's purchasers, but first-timers are being held back by a lack of inventory and student debt, according to a National Association of Realtors survey.

A flurry of new townhouses and suburban starter homes is helping boost homebuilding in the Twin Cities metro.

To protect veterans from predatory lending practices, Ginnie Mae and the Department of Veterans Affairs should remove lenders' financial incentive for originating Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loans.

A shortage of entry-level houses is putting a chill on the housing market in the Twin Cities.