“I’m NEVER Moving Again!” and Other Lies Home Buyers Tell.
The Market is Changing. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.
If I had a dollar for every time I sat next to a client at a closing table and had them turn to me and say, “After this house — we are never moving again,” I’d finally be able to plunk down an all-cash offer on that beach bungalow I’ve always dreamed of. In my twenty years as a real estate broker helping buyers and sellers with their most personal and expensive investments, I’ve learned that people’s lives change — a lot — and often quite unexpectedly. And when their lives change, their housing needs often change too. People get married. And sometimes they get divorced. They have babies. Those little ones grow up and move away. Homeowners upsize their addresses and then downsize again. They follow work and love to new cities, or they want to get closer to family or further away. It’s a challenge for people to stay in one place for too long. I often wonder if human migration is ingrained in our DNA.
At the start of the pandemic, the government and experts all said, “Stay put.” So, what did we do? We jumped up immediately and went out to upgrade our digs, causing the already tight housing market to explode with buying activity. Why? If we were required to stay in one place indefinitely, we wanted that place to be NICE. Some of us…
