Real estate agents continue to be the leading information source used by homebuyers. In a world filled with newspaper advertisements, real estate magazines, yard signs and the Internet, eighty-one percent of home buyers purchased their homes with the assistance of an agent.

* 41% of home buyers were purchasing for the first time

* 62% of buyers had no children residing at home

* 81% of buyers bought their home with the assistance of an agent

* 61% of recent home-buying households were represented by married couples

* The median age of recent homebuyers was 39 years