Welcome to our Home, James! ® Ocean View Beach Homes & Condos Blog

We believe the California Riviera - extending along coastal San Diego and south Orange County - is the best place in the world to live!

WHO MAY POST ON THIS BLOG: We invite contractors, inspectors, lenders, title, escrow and others in fields related to real estate to post helpful articles, advice or comments to this blog. Go ahead and include reference to your website and contact information. We especially encourage enquiries from clients and prospects. Post your questions to this blog - or email or call us - and watch for a timely reply.

Remember, for anything "real estate" along the entire California Riviera from Orange County to the Mexican Border just say, "Home, James!"

SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW POSTS

* If you have a subject of interest, try SEARCH - we already have thousand posts and abundant content on home improvement and maintenance, systems, landscaping, "green" energy efficiency, tax credits and deductions, finance, insurance, and many others! Chances are good that you will find exactly what you need to know. Go ahead, Search!*

Search This Blog

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Survey: People Moving for Happier Reasons

From Realtor Magazine Online, Daily Real Estate News August 27, 2009

People have gone back to moving in hopes it will improve their lives rather than moving to escape foreclosure or other aspects of the economic crisis, according to a survey of recent movers released this month by Relocation.com.

In the June survey, nearly 42 percent said they were in the process of buying a home or planning to buy one. Poll participants said their reason for moving was:

* To live in a bigger or better home (26 percent).
* To live in a better neighborhood or area (24 percent).
* To be closer to family or friends (12 percent).
* To live in an area with a lower cost of living (9 percent).
* To accommodate a change in marital status (6 percent).

Moving because of school, job loss, retirement, or foreclosure each generated 3 percent or less.

Responses to this survey are substantially different from the responses to a similar survey in March, when 41 percent said the recession was, at least partially, driving their move.

Source: Relocation.com (08/06/2009)

No comments: