Millennials are pouring into these smaller cities and buying homes
High home prices along with strong demand have today’s youngest homebuyers moving to smaller cities — and that could mean a boom for local economies and home values in those markets.
For example, Madison, Wisconsin, is a new mecca for millennials, according to a recent study from the National Association of Realtors, which ranked the top millennial housing markets based on both their high share of current young residents and of millennials moving in. Three out of 4 recent transplants to Madison were millennials and they have mostly stayed in the area, giving the city an overall high millennial population.
The growth is partly due to a burgeoning tech sector as well as the growing popularity of the University of Wisconsin with out-of-state students. Google recently announced it was expanding its Madison offices.