Existing homes now cost more than new builds, with a median gap of $18.6K in Q2 2025 Which costs more, existing houses or new construction? It depends on who’s counting and how they do the count.

Buying a house used to be a rite of passage for middle-class Americans, but in recent decades, would-be homeowners have found themselves priced out of the market. The affordability crisis has become ...

Most first-time buyers spend months — sometimes years — saving up for a down payment. They hit their savings target, get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As far back as modern records go, newly built homes have almost always cost more than previously owned homes. It only makes sense: ...

For most of the last 50 years, new homes have cost more than existing ones, nationally. Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut the trend has flipped. Something ...