During the second quarter, the housing market witnessed the largest number of first-timers buying homes in almost two decades and that’s helping to drive price appreciation through 2018, according to a new study by Genworth Financial. Second-quarter numbers show that FTHBs accounted for 570,000 single-family home purchases, compared to 424,000 in the previous period. Genworth said this marks the highest quarterly number since 1999 and is the continuation of a trend that began in the third quarter of 2013. That number accounts...