First-Time Homebuyers: Your Time Is Now

Fall is for first-timers.
Seventy of the top 100 largest metropolitan areas see more starter homes on-market in October, November and December, relieving prices 4.8 percent over spring, according to the recently released Trulia Inventory and Price Watch. The most dramatic shifts—in favor of first-time homebuyers—in prices and supply are out West, in Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon.“Housing markets along the West Coast have long been plagued by tight inventory and worse