Compact and more affordable homes seek to smooth transition from apartments
By Aldo Svaldi | The Denver Post
Young adults today are buying homes five years later on average than they did back in 2006, meaning they have had a lot more time to get accustomed to living in apartments than prior generations.
That in turn is changing how architects and builders are approaching the kind of homes they are putting on the market for first-time buyers.
About six years ago, John Guilliams, a partner at KGA Studio Architects in Louisville, said his firm started studying when millennials might finally buy homes in larger numbers and what would appeal to them.