Tag Archives: Baby Boomers

As the Baby Boomer generation grows older and enter those "empty-nester" years, many are swapping out their long-tome homes to enter the rental market.

It is a "misperception" that having a healthy credit score loses importance later in life, according to TransUnion.

While homeownership rates have mostly been falling the last two years, the demand for rental housing has seen unprecedented increases. What is driving the rental demand surge?

Ask the Economist is an ongoing series in which DS News talks with an economist about the most pressing issues facing the nation's housing industry and the economy. This installment features Mark Fleming, Chief Economist with First American Financial Corporation.

Analyzing data from the United States Census, Trulia's chief economist Jed Kolko found that the population growth of millennials in big, dense cities was outpaced by big-city suburbs and lower-density cities. Kolko also found that baby boomer growth in big, dense cities also fell short of growth in the big-city suburbs.

Baby Boomers, as a focus of study for their effect on the housing market, have been an underserved population, according to a blog post written by Trulia's Jed Kolko. He investigated whether baby boomer downsizing—selling a single-family home in order to move into a multi-family unit—could be a future trend in the housing market.