Some Migration and Childbearing Trends for Real Estate Investors to Consider

Real estate investors who take the long view might want to pay attention to a few reports just out that could shed some light on where the residential market might be going -- and where it hasn't really been.

One is from the U.S. Census Bureau, which says its latest data shows that only 27.1 million people -- about 8.4% of all of us -- changed addresses in the past year. That's the lowest rate of movement recorded since at least 1948 and by some measures, ever in the centuries that have passed since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790.

Then there's one from the Pew Research Center that says a growing share of American adults are choosing to stay childless, for a variety of reasons that range from climate change to, frankly, just not wanting kids.

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