Market Trends

Something that got a kickstart about a decade ago with the onslaught of the Financial Crisis, has continued to trend ever highward.  The number of U.S. households with multiple generations living under one roof now surpasses numbers from anytime dating back to the Great Depression.

Pew Research Center reports that 19% (or nearly one in five households) are multi-generational with more than one generation of adult family members taking up residence.  Over 60 million of us now live in a multi-generational household.

28% of Asians live in such households as compared to about half that number of whites.  Blacks and Hispanics fall in between.  The really big change has come from younger people.  In 1940 63% of seniors lived with younger family members.  Now that number is 24%.  On the other hand, 31% of those aged 25-29 live with another generation.

Those numbers are adding value to houses that can effectively accommodate multiple generations.  If you’d like to explore maximizing your own personal value buying or selling one of these homes, just give me a call or text.

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That’s a fact.  (And we all know what the 1930’s were about.)

Whether it’s due to long term trends about marriage, overwhelming student loan debt, a negative attitude toward acquiring things, a delay in taking on adulthood, some combination of the above, or something else entirely, Millennials are living with their parents in numbers not seen since the Great Depression.

32% of 18-34 year olds are living “in their parents’ basement.”  That’s now more than are living with a spouse or partner.  And it’s not all about student loan debt, as 36% of those with a high school education or less are living at home.

The age when young people first get married has risen from 21.3 years in 1956 to 25.8 in 2008, and is escalating quicker, with the current number all the way up to 27.8 years.  It appears that somewhere over a quarter of those in high unemployment groups and those with lower income prospects are not marrying and may never marry.

Maybe this is just another reason why Baby Boomers are not putting their big houses on the market and looking to downsize?

I don’t claim to have all of the answers, but I do my best to keep a finger on the pulse of what’s going on in your housing market.  Remember…

 “I work harder to make good things happen!”  -Bob