{"id":1620,"date":"2015-07-16T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2015-08-25T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:50:15","slug":"first-time-home-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/first-time-home-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Time Home Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the 2014 NAR Profile, 56% of first-time buyers are between 25 to 34 years old (a.k.a. \u2013 Millennials), and there are a whopping 43 million Americans in this age group, the largest generation so far. The job market has dramatically improved for Millennials with unemployment rates falling from 10.6%, to 5.9% in 2014. Additionally, lending standards for home mortgages have loosened and down payments for conventional mortgages have decreased.<\/p>\n

According to realtor.com\u2019s Chief Economist, Jonathon Smoke, over 60% of Millennials are looking at real estate online each month. In fact, 32% of home purchases made in May 2015 were by\u00a0first-time home buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).<\/p>\n

34% of first-time home buyers said that understanding the process and steps were the most difficult part of the process. That\u2019s where your members, the real estate experts, step in! First-time home buyers need an experienced agent to help them through the process \u2013 and this group of buyers is most likely to find an agent through a referral.<\/p>\n

Help first-time home buyers understand the home buying process (in plain English!) with realtor.com\u2019s new web series, Learn With Liz<\/em><\/a>. **Warning** – Be prepared to laugh!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Earn More Referrals and Win More Listings
\n<\/strong>ListHub\u2019s Seller Reports and Market Snapshot reports help your members engage with clients on a frequent basis with meaningful touch points to\u00a0earn more future referrals. Contact us today at info@listhub.com<\/a> or call 877-847-3394 x1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything you need to know about first-time homebuyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listhubnews.com\/mls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}