Personal finance site SmartAsset analyzed data for Americans ages 25 to 44 who took out new mortgages in 2022. It ranked the 40 biggest US metropolitan areas by the percentage of millennials living there who bought a home in 2022, while also looking at those cities’ median property values, interest rates, and incomes. Of the top 15 cities where the largest share of the millennial population bought homes, nine were in the South, five were in the Midwest, and none were in the Northeast or on the W

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