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Millennials are waiting longer to buy homes.
- $4 are changing homeownership thanks to $4 and $4.
- $4 are waiting longer to buy homes and living with their parents or roommates until they can afford a $4.
- They're also taking new measures to fast-track their path to homeownership, like moving to $4, downsizing, or buying with a significant other.
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They're juggling rising living costs, staggering $4, and $4. As a result of their consequent struggle to save, $4 are delaying major life milestones like getting married and buying a home.
When it comes to the latter, it doesn't help that housing prices have increased - millennials buying their first home today will pay $4 than baby boomers did at their age, $4. Coupled with financial struggles, its causing millennials to change the way homeownership looks in America.
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