Best Housing Markets for First-Time Homebuyers

Metro areas are ranked across affordability, competition, social characteristics and projected growth.

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180 metro areas for which data was available were ranked. Data comes from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Source: SmartAsset 2025 Study Get the data Embed