{
    "statement": "of US home buyers were first-time buyers (July 2024 to June 2025), the lowest share since NAR began tracking in 1981",
    "value_display": "21%",
    "value_numeric": 21,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "Jul 2024-Jun 2025",
    "data_period_end": "2025-06-30",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers; Generational Trends; Existing-Home Sales",
        "publisher": "National Association of REALTORS",
        "type": "industry",
        "url": "https://www.nar.realtor/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.nar.realtor/press-releases/first-time-home-buyer-share-falls-to-historic-low-of-21-median-age-rises-to-40",
    "source_quote": "The share of first-time home buyers dropped to a record low of 21%, while the typical age of first-time buyers climbed to an all-time high of 40 years",
    "verification_note": "Read on the NAR press release of 4 Nov 2025 (2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers) and confirmed in the 15 Apr 2026 Generational Trends release (\"lowest share since NAR began collecting the data in 1981\"). data.js dated it Apr 2026; the figure first appeared on 4 Nov 2025.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": "+/- 1.25 points (95% confidence)",
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": {
        "columns": [
            "Buyer group",
            "First-time share"
        ],
        "rows": [
            [
                "All buyers",
                "21%"
            ],
            [
                "Younger Millennials (27 to 35)",
                "60%"
            ],
            [
                "Older Millennials (36 to 45)",
                "33%"
            ],
            [
                "Gen X (46 to 60)",
                "21%"
            ],
            [
                "Younger Boomers (61 to 70)",
                "8%"
            ],
            [
                "Older Boomers (71 to 79)",
                "4%"
            ],
            [
                "Silent Generation",
                "3%"
            ]
        ]
    },
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-11-04",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "21%",
            "note": "2025 Profile (July 2024 to June 2025)."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2024-11-04",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "24%",
            "note": "2024 Profile (July 2023 to June 2024)."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/real-estate/first-time-buyer-share",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/real-estate/first-time-buyer-share.csv"
}