Find out why first-time homebuyers are struggling to afford Northwest Austin

Find out why first-time homebuyers are struggling to afford Northwest Austin

Although Austin’s real estate market is showing increases in sales and home prices, there is one demographic struggling to gain entry. With millennials—people born between 1981 and 1997, according to the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization—making up nearly 36 percent of Austin’s population, real estate experts say there are not many homes available within the city limits in their price range. Those homes mostly fall outside the city boundaries.