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Northeast starter homes surge past $1M, challenging millennials

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Starter homes in the Northeast are rapidly approaching or exceeding the million-dollar mark, a trend particularly impacting millennials. This region has seen the fastest growth in cities with million-dollar starter homes, with New Jersey and New York adding a significant number of such cities in the past year. Factors contributing to this affordability crisis include a decade-long housing shortage, intense demand, and historically low mortgage rates, exacerbated by limited new construction. AI

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Northeast starter homes surge past $1M, challenging millennials

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Sydney Lake ·

    The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home

    The first rung onto the property ladder now costs seven figures in a record 242 cities, a new Zillow report shows.

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