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Think this new appetite has anything to do with six months of working from home with our spouses and children?
If the TDSB is going to be remote learning by November, is it worth sacrificing comfort — and potentially sanity — to stay?
I took an incredibly important business call in my basement furnace room this week. It’s essentially a closet with a burnt-out light bulb, but I realized my kids wouldn’t be able to find me there. It is now my happy place.
Whereas once a family might have contemplated a move to Pleasantville and then spent the next three months touring weekend open houses until they landed on “the one,” COVID seems to have changed that too.
People are much more comfortable doing the legwork from their cars and seeing only the homes they think they have fallen for.
And now it can happen fast.
I have one client who drove by “something cute” in Collingwood one weekend, had me in to appraise his condo the following Tuesday, offered on a different house in Creemore by Thursday, and had a firm offer on his condo two weeks later.
“Who knows if I will even have a job in six months” he said, “better make a move now while I still can.”
See?
Buyers have changed.
