Demand for smaller homes is growing as baby boomers age
As the baby boomer generation hits retirement and starts to think about downsizing, it appears that demand for smaller homes is growing significantly. For many years, the trend was always in the other direction – people wanted bigger and bigger houses. The average size of a new home in 1973 was 1,660 square feet. That number increased almost every year after that, hitting 2,521 square feet in 2007. Since then, however, there has been a decline,