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Best and Worst Metro Areas to Be a First-time Homebuyer
View on AEI.orgThis report analyzes over 5 million first-time homebuyer (FTB) sales from 2013 to 2022 for the largest 60 metros. We rank these metros based on their affordability for FTBs by using the ratio of home prices to income for each individual FTB.