New Hampshire’s housing market got some national attention this year. Realtor.com reported Manchester is one of the hottest housing markets in the country, but it also noted that New Hampshire is overall one of the least affordable states for housing.

“New Hampshire used to be the place you moved up to from Massachusetts to get a much bigger house, more affordable,” said Paul McLaughlin, the Homeownership Program manager at Neighborworks Southern New Hampshire. “But there's not a lot of affordable houses out there right now. The prices just keep going up.”

For our How To New Hampshire series, we decided to ask him what first time homebuyers should know in a hot housing market.

Tip 1: Take a homebuyer education seminar

These seminars are offered by homeownership counselo

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