• While most home buyers continue to see their home purchase not only as a place to live, but also as a good financial investment, a smaller share of buyers expressed this view than in the past.
  • Seventy-eight percent of buyers feel that their home purchase is a good financial investment, while only 8 percent felt it was not a good investment.
  • In the 2010 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, 85 percent reported that a home was a good financial investment and in 2009, 87 percent of buyers held that view.
  • In the past, repeat buyers tended to have more favorable views of the investment value of homes, but in 2011 first-time buyers tended to have the more positive outlook.
  • Despite the somewhat diminished outlook among some buyers, seven in ten believe that a home purchase is as good or better of an investment as stocks.
  • For more information: http://www.realtor.org/topics/homebuyers_sellers_profile