Forty-three percent of last year’s home buyers used a gift from family or friends to help with their down payment, the most since at least 2018
- A median-income household would need to put 35.4% down to afford the payments on a typical U.S. home.
- Five years ago, the typical U.S. home would have been affordable to a median-income household with no money down.
- A typical home is affordable to a median-income household with 20% down or less in 10 of the 50 biggest U.S. markets.
SEATTLE, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — To comfortably afford a typical U.S. home, a home buyer making the median income needs to put down nearly $127,750, or 35.4%, a new Zillow® analysis shows. Five years ago, when mortgage rates were hovering just above 4% and the typical home was worth about 50% less, that home would have been affordable with no money down.
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