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    North Texas Is No. 1

    New rankings declare Dallas-area first-time homebuyers have it made

    Lindsey Wilson
    Jul 21, 2017 | 9:07 am
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    Looking to buy? Look in McKinney.
    Photo courtesy of Ebby Halliday Realtors

    Rents are soaring, so logic says that maybe it's time to buy. But how easy will that be in Dallas-Fort Worth? WalletHub says very, according to its latest rankings of the best and worst cities for first-time homebuyers.

     

    Not only are four of Dallas' suburbs in the top 10, but the top three are all North Texas: McKinney is No. 1, Frisco second, and Allen third. Richardson sneaks in at No. 7, but Denton (No. 11), Carrollton (No. 18), and Grand Prairie (No. 21) also rank highly.

     

    The personal finance site compared 300 cities of varying sizes across across 23 key indicators of market attractiveness, affordability, and quality of life. Broken down into weighted metrics, that means things such as cost of homeowners insurance, median home-price appreciation, recession recovery, job market, and even weather were taken into consideration.

     

    While McKinney's affordability isn't stellar (No. 191), its real estate market (No. 1) and quality of life (No. 7) rankings more than make up for it. With a total score of 68.32 out of 100, McKinney just barely holds onto the lead from Frisco's 68.2 and Allen's 68.15.

     

    Allen ranks second overall for lowest property crime rate, while Laredo has the cheapest cost of living. If you separate the cities by population into large (more than 300,000 people), midsize (150,000-300,000), and small (fewer than 150,000 residents), McKinney still comes out on top for midsize, while Frisco and Allen clean up with first and second for the small category. Fort Worth shows up at No. 5 on the large cities list.

     

    Elsewhere on the list, Plano ranks No. 29, Fort Worth is No. 33, and Garland takes No. 45. Closing out the top 100 are Amarillo (No. 51), Mesquite (No. 72), Austin (No. 86), Arlington (No. 96), Irving (No. 99). Where's Dallas? All the way down at No. 120, which is only slightly better than No. 136 San Antonio and Houston at No. 186.

     

    Not surprisingly, four of the bottom five cities are in California: Santa Monica, Oakland, and Berkeley join Miami Beach, with Santa Barbara coming in dead last.

     
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    millennial movers

    More millennials bought homes in Dallas than nearly any other metro in 2024

    Amber Heckler
    Jul 18, 2025 | 2:45 pm
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    Photo by Tierra Mallorca on Unsplash
    More than 26,000 adults aged 25-44 bought homes in San Antonio-New Braunfels last year.

    Dallas is turning into a haven for millennial homebuyers, a new SmartAsset housing study has found. Nearly 56,000 millennials purchased homes in the Metroplex in 2024.

    The report, "Where Millennials Are Buying Homes – 2025 Study," analyzed mortgage origination data across 41 of the largest U.S. metros, ranking them based on the percentage of local people aged 25-44 who purchased a home in 2024. As a note, the study only observed conventional mortgages and not FHA, USDA, or VA loans.

    The study found Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington had the second-highest number of millennial homebuyers in the U.S. last year, with a total 55,732 mortgages originated in the metro.

    That's about 6,100 fewer mortgages than Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, which had the No. 1 highest rate of millennial home purchases nationwide in 2024, adding up to 61,826 mortgages.

    The median property value of a DFW home purchased by a millennial in 2024 came out to $455,000, and the median income of a millennial homeowner was $142,000, according to the report.

    Millennial Dallasites already dread being locked in as renters for the rest of their lives, and one surprising statistic found in the report backs up that fear: Only 2.33 percent of all DFW millennials bought homes last year. Furthermore, Dallas-Fort Worth placed 30th in the report's overall ranking of U.S. metros with the highest percentage of millennials who purchased homes in 2024.

    For additional context, the No. 1-ranking metro was Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina with 4.5 percent of local millennials securing a mortgage last year. However, that percentage only represented 19,735 mortgages originated in 2024.

    SmartAsset said U.S. metros with a high rate of millennial homebuyers may show desirability within the area's job market, housing market, and its local economy.

    "In some places, 1 in every 25 residents between the ages of 25 and 44 purchased a home with a conventional mortgage just in 2024 alone," the study said. "In other major metros, less than 1 in 100 Millennial-aged residents last year. This disparity can cause divergent implications for local infrastructure, politics, and business demand among different metros."

    Here's how many mortgages that were secured by millennials in Texas' other major metros in 2024:

    • Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands – 61,826 mortgages
    • Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos – 27,196 mortgages
    • San Antonio-New Braunfels – 26,337 mortgages
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