senior priorities when downsizing

Moving: Life’s Real Estate Decisions

Are you thinking of moving? Planning is key to any successful move. Some decisions are economic. Others are purely personal. Today, I share some examples of how to create your own plan for identifying your next housing search. Selling your primary residence while buying your next property is more complicated than your first-time purchase. Please

By |2021-11-05T15:38:04-04:00November 10th, 2021|Categories: House Hunting|Tags: , , , , , |

Downsizing: Timing and Cost

A rising market favors people who are downsizing because the higher the property value, the greater the sale of the more expensive, bigger property. This offsets the higher price of the downsized, smaller property, assuming both properties are rising at the same rate. Suppose you own a house that was worth $650,000 before the mini-bubble.

By |2021-11-01T16:40:59-04:00September 6th, 2017|Categories: Senior living, thinking of selling?|Tags: , |

Senior Moves: Making a New House Feel Like Home

Today, a guest post from Jim Vogel: Your home is yours. Your children’s wedding photos line the walls, your grandmother’s tulips bloom in the front yard every spring, and you can still make out the faintest hint of marker where grandkids made the wall their canvas. But now that you’re moving to a new house

By |2017-06-18T22:52:03-04:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: thinking of selling?, Senior living|Tags: , |