Most-envied places to buy a first home
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#1 Chattanooga, Tennessee — among most-envied places to buy a first home.
n = 3,034 prospective first-time homebuyers · Fielded 2026 · Cherry Data Signals
What it means
The full ranking: #1 Chattanooga, Tennessee; #2 Murfreesboro, Tennessee; #3 Summerville, South Carolina; #4 New Braunfels, Texas; #5 Bakersfield, California; #6 Kingston, New York; #7 Temple, Texas; #8 Pueblo, Colorado; #9 Binghamton, New York; #10 Huntsville, Alabama.
Methodology
- Sample
- 3,034
- Population
- prospective first-time homebuyers
- Country
- United States
- Fielded
- 2026
- Research by
- Cherry Data Signals
- Study
- Where First-Time Buyers Want to Live
Cite this statistic
Cherry Data Signals (2026). "Most-envied places to buy a first home" Survey of 3,034 prospective first-time homebuyers, United States. https://cherrysignals.com/statistics/most-envied-places-to-buy-a-first-home
Free to reproduce with attribution to Cherry Data Signals and a link to this page.
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