Study: Delayed Homeownership to Hamper Millennials’ Retirement
Study: Delayed Homeownership to Hamper Millennials’ Retirement October 26, 2018 Financial experts are growing concerned by how millennials’ lack of homeownership will impact them financially when they retire. "Homeownership is one of the touchstones of being prepared for retirement," Tamera Sims, research scientist at the Stanford Center on Longevity, told CNBC. "Buying a home at age 50 or 60 isn't going to do you much good in funding a 30-year retirement." But young adults are “not able to hit the [housing] market at the same age as their parents,” Sims says. Researchers found homeownership is falling the most among people under the age of 30 compared to previous generations. The homeownership rate among early millennials (those born between 1980 and 1984) at age 30 is 35.8 percent, according to the Stanford Center on Longevity. The rate of nonowners, however, is 64.2 percent. For comparison, the rate of homeownership among baby boomers...