As the regulars here know, I’m a proud card carrying liberal. And I support equal pay for women and other women’s causes.
I didn’t mean to be sexist. But I do think that there’s truth to this. I’ve seen a lot of women influence home purchases. I also see men who are executives but have to check with their wives for everything — like dinner on Friday. Maybe it’s just the people I know.
This is a sensitive issue but I’d be willing to bet that, if asked, Realtors would confirm this in confidence (so as not to offend their biggest customers).
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s something inherent in the female sex, but it’s how women are socialized.
I think that men were also complicit in creating this bubble because they thought they could do little a sweat equity and become rich. Make the wife happy by giving her the house she wants; a little paint and elbow grease and the family gets to move on and on up the property ladder.
In a declining or stagnant market, my suspicion is that husbands would more likely restain their wives’ nesting urges (or the other way around as some posters wrote).
