More Boomers Choosing to Upsize in Retirement

Published: Sat, 08/08/15

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For as long as most people can remember, conventional wisdom has held that when you retire and the kids are grown and gone, you downsize your home.


But that’s not always the case anymore.


According to a recent Merrill Lynch and Age Wave retirement study of more than 3,600 respondents, 49 percent of retirees didn’t downsize in their last move, and 30 percent actually ended up moving into larger homes.


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Touching the banks of Lake Powell, one of Florida’s largest coastal dune lakes, rests Watersound Origins, a 1,400-acre community with uncompromising ideals and standards in planning, architecture, aesthetics and amenities.


Located in the Florida Panhandle, Watersound Origins offers a relaxed setting amid the natural beauty of Lake Powell and towering pines with the convenience of quaint shops, lively eateries and local activities of famed Scenic Highway 30-A just three miles south.


Influenced by maritime architecture of year’s past, the Watersound Origins community’s architectural design re-imagines and modernizes the coastal shingle home into a vernacular building style that is distinctly Florida. A variety of floor plans ideal for families, individuals or seasonal residents are offered starting in the mid $400’s.