The housing industry might be facing the biggest home buying opportunities in ages: the Millennials.

According to Wells Fargo, there are 51.5 million potential first time homebuyers born between 1979 and 1991, people born in between this year range are also knowned as the Millenials. Approximately 6 million more of these Millennials are making of these years the prime homebuying age.

For 3 consecutive years, the mortgage industry has been standing still in problems. Falsely written loans taken out by homebuyers who weren´t able to afford them which helped the rising of foreclosure levels, impacting servicers, who rapidly encounter themselves involved in investigations and brand new standards.

The result has been a growing shadow inventory of foreclosed homes that need to be sold. Meantime, home sales dropped as presently as February to its lowest rate since the Commerce Department started measuring the statistic.

Since 1980 membership at the National Association of Realtors linger around 750,000. But by 2006, the number increased to 1.36 million. And as well, since the collapse, membership decreased to 1 million, as information of NAR revealed. A 40% of the realtors still in business reported a net income of less than $25,000 in 2010.

The presently qualified residential mortgage could decrease sales even more. The QRM rule could push lenders to maintain a 5% of the risk after securitization on any loan written without a 20% down. And what the rule will say is still in speculation. In a letter written to regulators, NAR and the National Association of Homebuilders stated it could take a family earning a median income 14 years to save the 0% necessary for the down payment on a brand new home.

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