{"id":1090,"date":"2011-04-20T13:53:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.movoto.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:12:12","slug":"homeownership-holds-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/homeownership-holds-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeownership Holds its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who keep up with the world of real estate news and bloggery may have noticed that optimism about the housing market isn&#8217;t so easy to come by these days.&nbsp; From tiny local blog posts to major news articles,&nbsp; real estate seems to be in a state of all-consuming doom-and-gloom.<br \/>\nNever mind all that.&nbsp; At least that&#8217;s what huge segments of the REAL homebuying experts are saying. Who are these experts, you ask? That&#8217;s easy: they&#8217;re you and your neighbors.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/\">Pew Research Center<\/a> recently surveyed about 2100 average American home-buyers to find out <a href=\"http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/1960\/homeownership-still-thought-best-long-term-investment-by-big-majority%20target\">how they feel about home-ownership <\/a>5 years after the bubble burst. And it turns out that, despite ups and downs, <strong>81%<\/strong> of the people still believe that owning a home is the best investment out there.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2011\/04\/pewsurvey.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1095\" title=\"pewsurvey\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2011\/04\/pewsurvey.bmp\" alt=\"\"><\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a strong consensus, and it includes homeowners whose home decreased in value along with owners whose homes increased in value or stayed the same. Though that 81% does reflect a 3% decrease from 20 years ago (see chart below), it&#8217;s still an incredibly confident stance.<br \/>\nHomeowners aren&#8217;t the only ones who still believe in buying &#8211; 81% of renters hope to become owners eventually.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2011\/04\/pewsurvey2.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1096\" title=\"pewsurvey2\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2011\/04\/pewsurvey2.bmp\" alt=\"\"><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It all points to something that we at Movoto have believed for a long time: the real value of homeownership is more than a price-tag. Yes, the market is a little scary right now, but that doesn&#8217;t change the underlying objective value of having a place in the world that&#8217;s all your own. Price-tags will recover, but peace of mind is priceless.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n*<em>(Graphs from: http:\/\/pewresearch.org\/pubs\/1960\/homeownership-still-thought-best-long-term-investment-by-big-majority%20target)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who keep up with the world of real estate news and bloggery may have noticed that optimism about the housing market isn&#8217;t so easy to come by these days.&nbsp; From tiny local blog posts to major news articles,&nbsp; real estate seems to be in a state of all-consuming doom-and-gloom. Never mind all that.&nbsp; At least that&#8217;s what huge segments of the REAL homebuying experts are saying. Who are these experts, you ask? That&#8217;s easy: they&#8217;re you and your neighbors. 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