{"id":3890,"date":"2018-06-27T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/are-you-wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:10:21","slug":"are-you-wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/are-you-wondering-if-you-can-buy-your-first-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Wondering If You Can Buy Your First Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear: both; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142007\/20180626-Share-STM.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142007\/20180626-Share-STM.jpg 750w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142007\/20180626-Share-STM-549x300.jpg 549w\" alt=\"Are You Wondering If You Can Buy Your First Home? | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"648\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many people sitting on the sidelines trying to decide if they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2018\/06\/08\/the-cost-of-renting-vs-buying-infographic-2\/?a=364401-3b56ebb70dafbecc4de42825d439e92e\">should<\/a> purchase a home or sign a rental lease. Some might wonder if it makes sense to purchase a house before they get married or start a family, some might think they are too young, and still, some others might think their current incomes would never enable them to qualify for a mortgage.<span id=\"more-37714\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We want to share what the typical first-time homebuyer actually looks like based on the\u00a0<em>National Association of Realtors\u2019<\/em>\u00a0most recent<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/research-and-statistics\/research-reports\/highlights-from-the-profile-of-home-buyers-and-sellers\">Profile of Home Buyers &amp; Sellers<\/a>.<\/em> Here are some interesting revelations on the first-time buyer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142017\/20180626-STM-ENG.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37716\" src=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142017\/20180626-STM-ENG.jpeg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142017\/20180626-STM-ENG.jpeg 2000w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142017\/20180626-STM-ENG-483x300.jpeg 483w, http:\/\/files.simplifyingthemarket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/22142017\/20180626-STM-ENG-1024x636.jpeg 1024w\" alt=\"Are You Wondering If You Can Buy Your First Home? | Simplifying The Market\" width=\"650\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bottom Line<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You may not be much different than many people who have already purchased their first homes. Let\u2019s meet to determine if your dream home is within your grasp today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people sitting on the sidelines trying to decide if they should purchase a home or sign a rental lease. Some might wonder if it makes sense to purchase a house before they get married or start a family, some might think they are too young, and still, some others might think their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-time-home-buyers","category-for-buyers","category-millennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinapinkerman.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}