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r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 114.3K upvotes, which works out to 111 per 1,000 members.

111peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
114.3Kbest post
22.9Kmost comments
886posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 29% 23% 17%
Text 30% Image 29% Question 23% Gallery 17%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Need Advice 395 GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 254 Finances 65 Inspection 53 GOT THE KEYS! - New Build 🔑 🏡 40 Offer 25 Underwriting 15 Appraisal 4 UPDATE: 2 Rant 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I did it. Single mom of two. Florida, 275k, 3.9%

↑ 114.3K 💬 2.2K image 2026

Interior pics of my home! Valencia, Spain 120k @ 2.1%

↑ 70K 💬 2.5K gallery 2026

We did it chat! 6.25% 30yr

↑ 69.2K 💬 2.2K image 2025

27 M & 27 F. VA Loan $318k @6.625!

↑ 57.5K 💬 6.6K gallery 2025

I did it! West Tokyo, $106K USD, 1.1%

↑ 52.4K 💬 2K image 2026

We did it! Upstate NY $160k 6.5%

↑ 51.4K 💬 3.5K gallery 2026

Finally decided to settle down. Tokyo, 87m yen, 1.03%

↑ 43.7K 💬 1.6K gallery 2026

First home at 30. 195k. Couldn’t be happier

↑ 42.3K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Our first home is finally ours! $700k, Auckland, 6.2%

↑ 42.2K 💬 1K image 2025

I DID IT! 🎉

↑ 38.7K 💬 571 image 2024

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer have?
r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 886 of its posts; the biggest reached 114.3K upvotes, which is 111 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer?
"I did it. Single mom of two. Florida, 275k, 3.9%" reached 114.3K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer.
What subreddits are similar to r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are text posts and 29% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer?
Across 886 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 11:00 UTC (30.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 01:00 UTC (18.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (17.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer has 28.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 319 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.