As the tide shifts to a new generation, the real estate sector wants to know what
millennials want in a home.
What Do
Millennials Want in a Home?
Not exact matches
Not content with gainful employment,
millennials want to work from
home or
in offices more focused on fun than financials, the thinking goes.
The combination of baby boomers not
wanting to own
homes and
millennials that are staying
in the rental market longer, either because they are unable to buy or simply delaying that decision to buy a
home, supports strong renter demand.
To determine the best cities for
millennials who
want to buy a
home, GOBankingRates analyzed the largest 50 metro areas
in the U.S., and scored them on their unemployment rates,
millennial home ownership levels,
millennial home values and mortgage affordability.
In other words, millennials seem to want to buy homes, but various factors have been preventing them in doing s
In other words,
millennials seem to
want to buy
homes, but various factors have been preventing them
in doing s
in doing so.
Thanks to the tech boom and other innovations
in the new economy, the share of
millennials who earn six figures or more is growing with each passing year — and of course, they
want the social status, tax benefits and other advantages of owning a
home.
Baby boomers are retiring
in droves and looking to downsize, leaving their
millennial children — many of whom
want to buy a house — left contemplating whether they should buy their childhood
home.
Data produced by realtor.com
in partnership with Optimal Blue, an enterprise lending service platform, also reveals that the key for
millennial buyers who
want to close on a
home is to be very financially healthy with high FICO scores and low debt to income ratios.
And
Millennials will especially
want to take
home genuine made -
in - Kauai carvings from rare, native woods.
BofA's report reveals that «68 percent of
millennial homeowners say their current
home is a stepping stone to the
home they
want to end up
in.»
Understanding what
millennials are looking for
in a potential
home is imperative if you
want to succeed as a real estate professional, as more
millennials are starting to search for their first
home.
Homebuilders, like PulteGroup and Better
Homes and Gardens Real Estate, recently revealed surveys of what
Millennials want in their future
homes.
Possibly offsetting the low supply of starter
homes, which is down 17 percent year over year, 60 percent of respondents to realtor.com ®'s survey who did say they plan to sell
in the next year are
millennials who
want to move to a larger
home or one with nicer features.
Building the
millennial dream
home: what features this generation
wants in 2017, (Compass Mortgage, Mar. 4, 2017).
To attract
millennial homebuyers to do business with you, it's important to understand three things: how
millennials look for
homes, what they
want in their
homes, and what they
want to see on real estate websites.
«While there's lots of talk about
millennials wanting to move to big cities and live
in apartment buildings, the fact is that all of our research indicates that many renters
want to rent single - family
homes,» Mayopoulos said, «because they like the lifestyle; they like living
in communities where they have access to yards and bigger houses.»
The survey also showed that 55 percent of
Millennials said they
want their
home to be
in close proximity to public transportation.
Interestingly, 44 percent of
millennials don't
want to own a
home right now, suggesting that more
millennials are planning on settling down later
in life and are not looking for long term commitment.
In other words,
Millennials still
want to own
home eventually, but more are saying «not right now».
Those looking to buy may
want to consider a winter
home purchase
in order to avoid bidding wars and higher prices spurred by a potential increase
in millennial buyers.»
As
home prices continue to move up, and more markets are rated over-heated or «overvalued», it would be interesting to see if
Millennial renters who
want to buy would eventually become desensitized and dive right
in, or if the opposite would happen and they could lose their confidence to stomach buying at potentially the top of the market.
«The bulk of that generation [
Millennials] sits
in their mid-20's somewhere, they are going to move into their 30s and
want to buy
homes.»
You'll
want to make sure you're pointing your
millennial clients
in this direction when helping them with their
home search.
When we stacked up the wish list of younger buyers against the type of new
homes and new
home communities we're building
in King, Pierce and Thurston counties, we couldn't help but notice that our
homes offer
Millennial home buyers just about everything research shows they
want.
While we can't know for sure they will own at rates of older generations, our survey work at Trulia shows 80 % of
Millennials want to own a
home — the highest share of any cohort and the highest
in the seven years we've run the survey.
A study from NAH revealed that 48 percent of
millennials want to buy a
home in the near future, but 53 percent of them would struggle with financing due to student debt.
While it should be no surprise that
Millennials are interested
in connected things — one quarter of
Millennials already have at least one smart
home feature — a majority of boomers
want connected things, too.
So if
millennials do
want to purchase
homes, what exactly are they looking for
in their starter
homes?
Everything useable — but not necessarily visible: Given a choice,
Millennial home buyers
want new
home features that focus on great use of space, including cabinets that go all the way to the ceiling, single large farmhouse sinks
in lieu of the traditional double sink, hidden outlets and charging stations, under - cabinet lighting, and floor - level lighting that comes on when triggered by motion detectors
in hallways, stairwells, bathrooms, and other spaces where a little light goes a long way.
From our latest ValueInsured Modern Homebuyer Survey, we learned again, as we did
in all our previous quarterly surveys, that
Millennials want to own
homes.
It is true that most
Millennials want to own a
home — this desire is consistently recorded among 80 % of all
Millennials surveyed
in ValueInsured's quarterly Modern Homebuyer Survey, and echoed as recently as a week ago
in an Apartment List survey reported by Forbes.
When NAR's 2016
Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study came out earlier this month, many were surprised to learn that the millennial generation, much like their parents, want to buy a single - family home in the subu
Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends study came out earlier this month, many were surprised to learn that the
millennial generation, much like their parents,
want to buy a single - family
home in the subu
home in the suburbs.
Just about everyone
in the housing industry has an opinion on the topic of whether
millennials will ever
want to give up renting and own
homes like their parents.
«Contrary to the notion that
millennials don't
want to buy
homes, their preference for real estate as a long - term investment is exceeded only by their counterparts
in Gen X,» says Greg McBride, Bankrate's chief financial analyst.
Some experts have suggested
in recent years that
millennials may not
want to own
homes.
«
Millennials have been fairly slow to get into the market, but we are seeing an uptick
in millennial buyers this year — which is a good sign, because as
home values rise, we
want a wider number of people to participate
in this housing recovery,» said Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
The combination of a tight supply of
homes available to them and common
Millennial tropes (They
want to live
in cities!
Dr. Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow, reports that, «Roughly 42 percent of
Millennials say they
want to buy a
home in the next one to five years.»
«It has to be move -
in ready,» says JP Endres, a real estate professional based
in Westchester County, N.Y. «They'll personalize the
home in small ways, for example with paint, but my
millennial buyers don't
want to have to renovate or do a lot of work.»
Millennials want big
homes: 2,375 sq. ft. on average, according to the latest NAHB tracking survey, released
in March 2016.