96-Year-Old Sells House. When She Opens Door Buyers Freak Out

27.The housing market then and now

Residential building blew up in the 1940s and 50s with the baby boomer generation, but even with the sudden need for bigger houses to accommodate young and growing families, the housing market would’ve looked a lot different back in the 1940s, than it does in the present day.

Joyce and her husband had perhaps unknowingly made the best investment of their lives when they bought their home. What Joyce and her husband would have paid for the Jane Street property back in 1942 would have paled in comparison to what Gladys and Carla had priced it at more than 70 years later.