Housing trends by generation: Gen Z, millennials, boomers

Just like their varying tastes in clothes and music, each generation of consumers today have unique preferences on where and how they want to live. Millennial and Gen Z adults, for example, are choosing to live in luxury rentals rather than buy property in the nation’s capital. Meanwhile, in a reversal of trends from generations before them, many boomers do not wish to downsize and are in fact “aging in place.”

For more on these stories and other housing trends affecting homebuyers in the different generations, read our roundup below.