Pete Finn

Hey, Clare.

How are you?

Yeah, well, I think everybody's situation is different.

Everybody's life situation is different.

You're going to have people who want to downsize because maybe they're empty nesters.

Then you've got young families that maybe bought a first time home and then wanted to move on.

The family's grown and then they feel they need a bigger home.

So in both situations, and there's lots of other situations, people are considering should they move?

They probably originally thought that they were going to move.

But I think when they actually look into it,

So let's say the downsizer is going to move into maybe closer to the town or is going to move into a new estate.

First of all, they realise they've no back garden.

Second of all, they realise there's probably one parking space if they're lucky.

So what seemed like a good idea and it's a whole new community.

So that's a big decision to make.

So while the house might be too big for them, then the new lifestyle might not be what it was.

And then in the opposite side where the person is looking to move,

they're going to move home, but at the cost of that then makes a big decision that has to be made.

Should they stay in the home with the community, the kids in school, and just extend their existing home?

Well, there's nothing cheap about either option, let's be totally honest.