By Clare Trapasso | realtor.com
Doc Martens are back in fashion, this time on the shelves at Nordstrom. Hollywood starlets sport ’90s choker necklaces and Nirvana T-shirts. And guess what? Generation X home buyers are making their comeback, too.
Gen X may not be getting as much attention these days as the (forever) up-and-coming millennial generation, but it’s making its mark on the housing market as the only generation to buy more homes last year than it did in the previous one, according to the latest National Association of Realtors® Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends survey. Nearly 5,500 home buyers who purchased a house between July 2015 and June 2016 answered the 132-question survey. Their responses were compared with results from the previous 12-month period.
