The death of the 30-something homebuyer was greatly exaggerated

Getty Images; iStock; Tyler Le/BI Buying a first home is generally considered a young person's game. If your 20s are for stumbling through adulthood, then your 30s are for settling down with a family and a mortgage. Your 40s are for reaping the fruits of that labor: as you watch your home equity swell, maybe you think about splurging for more bedrooms and a bigger yard. A report released last fall by the National Association of Realtors upended this basic assumption. For several decades, the...