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Originally Posted by SIRE1
Based on your question "average age for a new villager to buy a home" my guess would have to be based on where in The Villages you were referring. I'm going to speculate that many of the newly retired people are in their early 60's, and I would bet that many of them are buying new homes which are in the new areas south of 44. That was probably true say 10 years ago when the area around Lake Sumter Landing and down to Brownwood was new. So now, I would expect that area to have many in their 70's. And by extension, I would expect a lot more of those north of 466 are in their late 70's and 80's,. I know that in all areas there are a mix of ages due to resales, but I suspect that this logic would explain the average age being 71.5. But this is all a guess.
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I thought the same thing, but actual first hand experience has proven otherwise. We bought in our 50’s over 6 years ago north of 466 between LSL and SS. When we bought we were the youngsters in a relatively old demographic neighborhood. Over 6 short years, the turnover in our neighborhood has been rapid. We are now in our 60’s and are surrounded by neighbors mostly in their 50’s and 60’s. What was an older neighborhood a few years ago is rapidly becoming young by villages standards. In a few more short years both the north and southern most areas will be the young areas, and the middle areas will be older. Then the cycle will change again. With the age demographic in the Villages, rapid housing turnover is a constant.