By Staci Caplan
2020 President
Santa Barbara Association of REALTORS®
At the beginning of this year, I asked how your real estate dreams were coming along. Everything has changed since then, although one thing remains – the importance of home, especially now - as a sanctuary, where we have learned to structure our lives in new ways. We have noticed how our homes function – or not - and have had plenty of time to spend at home to mull it over.
Have you been thinking of downsizing – letting go of a property more suited to another time, another purpose? Or do you and your loved ones need more space? Have you been looking online at the available properties, looking for that “perfect” replacement? Unless you have cash ready to go, you most likely will need to sell in order to buy, perhaps with your REALTOR orchestrating a concurrent closing, with proceeds from your sale being wired in to close on the new house.