By Samanda Dorger Competition for starter homes is intense. What’s a buyer to do? Look to these cities to break into the real estate market. Who wants to buy a home? A lot more people than there are homes to buy, and the outlook for first-time buyers is particularly grim. About 26 million Americans plan to buy a home in the next 12 months, but just 5-6 million homes were sold in each of the past five years, according to a NerdWallet survey conducted in December 2021. Millennials, aged about 26-41 years, are the largest group trying to buy homes, about 37%, according to the National Association…