McG
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An collection of anecdotal observations seem to be suggesting that APS is suffering some troubles this year in comparison to past years. It appears a series of incidents of are stagnating traditionally fast moving military housing markets (places like Petawawa, Oromocto, Shilo, etc). I suspect the fallout will be significantly higher rates of IR and unaccompanied than past years. I'm curious if others are seeing this, or if it is just perception.
The first big kicker was the one month delay in posting messages to coincide them with budget time announcements. This delayed the start of "house selling season" in both big cities and military communities, which in turn delayed when people started selling and going on HHTs. Then, all three brigades held brigade level exercises and I am told that within one of those brigades there was direction (either from fmn level or unit level) that nobody would be doing an HHT until everyone was out of the field - this period of busy activity further delayed personnel going on HHTs into military driven housing markets. This retardation of buyers into military driven markets has significantly slowed sales, and other factors are exacerbating.
Many of these "military driven markets" (hence force "MDMs") are sustaining unsustainable house construction industries. The size of the bases is either stagnant or increasing only marginally, yet year after year new arrivals are coming in a choosing to build houses instead of buy existing houses - eventually (if we're not there already), supply exceeded demand and every new house built by a military postee equates to a military family being unable to sell themselves out of their home.
... and to further drive down these MDMs, the approach of July seems to be inspiring some (seemingly unaware that they can go unaccompanied and (hopefully) move the family later in the summer) to throw-in the towel and request IR. Much like the sustained unsustainable house building, this also equates to one more military family unable to sell themselves out of their home.
As I said at the top, maybe this is just perception. I know that a lot of big city housing markets are depressed at the moment, but they still seem to be moving. Is anyone else seeing that the "MDMs" seem to be relatively dead this year?
The first big kicker was the one month delay in posting messages to coincide them with budget time announcements. This delayed the start of "house selling season" in both big cities and military communities, which in turn delayed when people started selling and going on HHTs. Then, all three brigades held brigade level exercises and I am told that within one of those brigades there was direction (either from fmn level or unit level) that nobody would be doing an HHT until everyone was out of the field - this period of busy activity further delayed personnel going on HHTs into military driven housing markets. This retardation of buyers into military driven markets has significantly slowed sales, and other factors are exacerbating.
Many of these "military driven markets" (hence force "MDMs") are sustaining unsustainable house construction industries. The size of the bases is either stagnant or increasing only marginally, yet year after year new arrivals are coming in a choosing to build houses instead of buy existing houses - eventually (if we're not there already), supply exceeded demand and every new house built by a military postee equates to a military family being unable to sell themselves out of their home.
... and to further drive down these MDMs, the approach of July seems to be inspiring some (seemingly unaware that they can go unaccompanied and (hopefully) move the family later in the summer) to throw-in the towel and request IR. Much like the sustained unsustainable house building, this also equates to one more military family unable to sell themselves out of their home.
As I said at the top, maybe this is just perception. I know that a lot of big city housing markets are depressed at the moment, but they still seem to be moving. Is anyone else seeing that the "MDMs" seem to be relatively dead this year?