homebuyer

noun

home·​buy·​er ˈhōm-ˌbī(-ə)r 

variants or home buyer

plural homebuyers or home buyers

: a person who is buying or intends to buy a home

programs for first-time homebuyers

The housing market may feel out of whack to home buyers coping with fast-rising home prices …

—Aarthi Swaminathan

Examples of homebuyer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But that's not to say that a rate cute would necessarily bring down borrowing rates for homebuyers, said Matt Schulz, chief consumer finance analyst for LendingTree, in a research note. —Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 17 June 2025

For prospective homebuyers hoping for mortgage rates to finally come down, this means that a likely longer wait before that is possible. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025

For potential homebuyers, the U.S. housing market is hard to read right now. —Mike Winters, CNBC, 11 June 2025

Despite this, about half of the prospective homebuyers surveyed feel optimistic about the market, saying it’s improved over the past year. —Niamh Rowe, Quartz, 28 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for homebuyer

• amplifier
• clarifier
• classifier
• gasifier
• magnifier
• modifier
• multiplier
• occupier
• pacifier
• purifier
• qualifier
• quantifier