starter home/house

noun

: a first home

This small house would make a great starter home/house for a young couple.

Examples of starter home/house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When these blocks were mapped out, an entry-level industrial wage earner could reliably expect a functional starter home to fall within reach of a single income. — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026

Since adopting its first interim housing ordinance in 2024, Campbell has received 15 applications for starter home projects in multi-family, mixed-use and single-family zoning districts, according to the staff report. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

Residents called on the council to repeal the ordinance due to the perception that these starter home projects are displacing existing homes and changing the character of single-family neighborhoods. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

While starter home districts would circumvent communities’ larger lot restrictions, that very fact would seem to generally restrict their voluntary adoption in those circumstances. — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 21 Mar. 2026