We were so proud of our first house and the life we built there, but it's time for something new and we're ready.

I'd always had the unshakeable belief that homeownership was the path to financial stability and adult happiness. For years, I crunched Zillow numbers and filled out spreadsheets while fantasizing ...

More than a decade ago, I bought a house in the city I moved to for my first job in my old career. I was tired of living in an apartment complex, tired of sharing walls with other tenants, and tired ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After landing my dream job, it felt like the right time to buy a house. I was let go soon after. Instead of finding the next ...

When I bought my first house in 2010, at age 24, it was the Great Recession, and the housing market—the entire world, really—was off-kilter. A little like it is now. I was newly married, a recent ...

At an age when many homeowners are paying off their mortgage, thinking about downsizing or giving up home ownership to rent, I bought my first house. Buying wasn't my top choice. Housing stability was ...

My husband and I looked at more than a dozen houses—and lost out on two in bidding wars—before we finally found "the one." Our home wish list was teeny-tiny—more than one bathroom, hopefully a ...

On St. Patrick's Day weekend, 2023, I closed on my first house, attended my two daughters' first ballet, and went to their dad's funeral — all in the same weekend. Two months later, I was laid off and ...