adults planning a home purchase in the next 12 months.
Method of interview
Online survey
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* The source adds the following information: "polls are based on a national sample of adults selected to proportionately represent the US adult population in terms of age, gender, region, race/ethnicity, and education. Further weights are applied to the final set of respondents to ensure proper representation across these demographic variables."
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Share of prospective home buyers who prefer a new home 2021-2023, by generation
According to a survey conducted among over * respondents in the United States, approximately ** percent of home buyers who were looking to buy a home in the next 12 months would prefer a newly-built home as of the second quarter of 2023. This result reflected a significant change from 2021, when ** percent of respondents preferred a newly built home. Among different generation groups, millennials had the strongest preference for new over existing housing (** percent). During the same period, roughly ** percent of U.S. adults were planning a home purchase in the next year.
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