Show I Children Greatest Reason for Home Bome Buying I Out of every American home homeowners homeowners homeowners I owners 50 buy their first house to Uto have a better place to bring up the children The next greatest motive Is just a sentimental longing for a ahome ahome ahome home of ot our own o Investment runs a n poor third as a reason for home ownership The average American couple buy their first home when they have been married five fi years when the husband is 32 and the wife i is 29 The average price paid by bythe bythe bythe the families studied was almost almost al al- al most exactly two years' years salary the average annual income reported being being be be- ing 2452 New homes were built by 31 per cent of the families ques ques- Sixty-nine Sixty per cent purchased pur pur- chased older houses and there were children In 61 per cent of the families families families lies at the time their first home was purchased |