Generation X Home Buying Trends

Generation Xers are traditional after all -- they buy homes like the ones they grew up in.

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March 12, 2003, 12:00 PM PST

"In recent years, the stereotype of the 46 million Americans born from 1965 to 1978 focused on their striving nature and seeming predisposition toward urban living. As a group, experts say, Strivers tend to work long hours and be technology-savvy and financially aware. The implication for builders is that a more upscale set of buying preferences is now being felt in the first-time and first move-up markets, regardless of whether some in the group can afford upscale prices."

Thanks to Congress on New Urbanism

FULL STORY: Striver Drivers

Tuesday, March 11, 2003 in Housing Zone

Social / Demographics United States

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