To ask at what age you bought your "forever" home?

[Daisypop89]

Myself and DP bought our first home last Spring (at 29 years old). We had DD1 already when we bought it and DD2 arrived at the end of last year. The house is a new build in a nice estate, about 30 minutes from my hometown. I just don't know if it's our "forever" home. It's in a nice quiet area, schools etc. all around are lovely.

I'd like to know what age you were when you bought your forever home? Perhaps I just feel we are still so young to be tied to the same property for the rest of our lives, and maybe one day we will want something bigger/better.

It doesn’t exist. We’ve been here for over 20 years. It’s too big now so we’re planning to move. I don’t foresee the next one being for ever either.

Bought this house 28 years ago at age 28. We bought it because it was the only available house in the area we needed to be in at the time. In that time we've had 2 children, extended the house instead of moving, we've been built around on all sides - so it's not the same house that we bought. Now me and DH are rattling around in it on our own most of the time - it's far too big for us. But we like the area and DS still returns home from time to time. Eventually we will move - where to and to what we haven't a clue but we hope to have at least 2 decades in another house. So unless your house can expand and then shrink again and be fully adaptable to meet your needs in old age then I'm not sure a "forever" home even exists.

Also don’t believe in ‘forever’ homes. It suggests fairly static lives where needs don’t change and makes people overly emotionally attached to houses that no longer meet their needs.

We bought this house (3 bed semi) at 34, intending it to be for a few years followed by a move to a different area (probably thinking to a ‘forever’ home!) We’re still here 10 years on for various reasons, have extended so it better meets our needs. Expect to stay while DC are in school, so another 10 years! Then we’d definitely like to try living in a different area, and would look for a house to suit us then, expecting that we would probably move again in old age.

Me and DP bought our first home last year (age 31); the EA referred to it as a "starter home" and I wanted to say to her that I had no intention of moving! I dont get this when obsession in this country of 'moving up the ladder'. I like our small house, easy to clean, cheap bills, near to bus stop etc. I will not be moving unless I had to move areas for a job or something.

I have seen a lot of ppl overstretch themselves and basically have no money for a nice life after the mortgage and I'm determined not to do the same.

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Didn't know it was going to be our forever home, but it's turned out to be.

It's not my dream home, or even location. But it's where I've brought home my babies and raised them, where we've put down our roots and blossomed as a family and where, despite the faults it has, we will probably remain. I

41. I wouldn't say it's a 'forever' home, we may downsize in the future, or move abroad

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I didn’t know it was a forever home, hadn’t come across the expression, but I’ve been here longer than anywhere else & I have no intention of moving.

It’s not perfect but it’s my home & I love it 🥰

We've been in this house for 17 years, and it's been great. Now our son is not at school and I won't be commuting soon, so won't need the station nearby, we are looking to move. A forever home doesn't really exist as you need different things at different ages.

Me and the husband were 20, just married. We bought a run down 4 bedroomed bungalow and still live in it now 38 years later. The only way we will leave is via a coffin.

stamp duty makes moving frequently costly.

I'm hoping to buy mine at about 80ish.

35 been here quite a while now . In the "burbs " so best of both parks,rivers ,shops nearby .Also short drive to the beach ! Detached period property ,plenty of room for us all !

We bought our first home at 22 - it was a 2 bed mid terraced in a rough area that needed fully renovating. We then bought our current (and presumably forever home unless we have mobility issues as we get older) when we were 27. It's a 4 bed detached in a nice area (it also needed fully renovating). This should be plenty big enough to grow into and we've fully renovated it exactly to our tastes so we love it.

We moved in to our current house 4 years ago when I was 36 and we'll certainly be here for the foreseeable future (DH says he's never moving again after the stress of this move!). It's in a nice area, close to lots of amenities and has room for as the children grow.

First home at 20.
We bought what I thought was my forever home at 30, a nice 4 bed with lots of room in the village I grew up in.
In reality we both hated it there, the neighbours were awful and the house had an atmosphere that dragged us both down.
We stayed there for 6 years and have been up the road in what is now our "forever until we can't manage the stairs" home for 11 years now.

I bought my first house at 26. nice house, big enough for kids etc but would have happily moved if I could afford it
Then last year finally managed to renovate the whole house including new kitchen and bathroom etc. Now I couldn't ever see myself leaving here.

30... if we stay here. We probably could do, we thought we would when we bought it but have found a couple of niggly things that might mean we move once more in 4 or 5 years time

I don't believe in forever homes, you need different things at different stages of your life, were bought this house when I was 32, I owned a flat prior to that. I really like the house we've done a lot of work on it, it has a huge garden and plenty of room to extend out or up (currently 3 double beds, living room, dining room, morning room and a good size kitchen that's ripe for a side return extension/conservatory) , the local area is good, it's commutable to London if needed and the local schools are excellent, so I have no intention of moving while DS still lives at home and he's only 15 months. However something might change, one of us might get a fantastic job opportunity abroad, or get made redundant and not find another job or suffer from a life altering illness/accident then we'd probably need to move and when DS has grown up we won't need as much space, might not want to look after a big garden, won't care about school catchments, so we'll probably downsize.

Completely agree with Greatwave

OP - I don't mean to be rude but why are you worrying about this now?

As you've pointed out you're only 29, you are already buying a home which is an achievement at 29 and you have a baby!

You're falling in to the trap of not enjoying what you have because you're striving for bigger and better. And it is a trap!

I started buying my first home at 22. And by the age of 34 was divorced and house was sold and I was having to start all over again and couldn't afford to buy another house. Make plans for the future but appreciate what you have now.

No such thing as a forever home. What suits you in your 30s with young kids won’t be perfect in your 50/60s with grandkids and 80s with mobility needs.

No such thing as a forever home
I agree with this. It's just Kirsty Allsopp/estate agent jargon, designed to make people think their current home isn't satisfactory and they always need to strive to rise up the property ladder.

44. I love my house, it's my 'dream' home

I thought I bought it three years ago. Then dp and I split and I got a job elsewhere. Now trying to decide whether to keep or sell.