The stock market has risen and fallen, and the housing market has experienced peaks and troughs over the years. Unlike those speculators who have several houses to invest in, a set of self-occupied houses that are just needed was once the ultimate dream of countless young people drifting in first-tier cities.
However, with the passage of time, some of them have experienced various "changes" in their lives, and their houses have been downgraded from a "belief" to a potential means of negative equity and capital withdrawal. There are also people who are ready to leave Beijing and have decided not to live for housing anymore.
The moment the transaction was completed, the dream of North Drift was over
Xiaoliang, who has passed the year of establishment, was a member of the army of "renting a house and paying a mortgage", he was born in a working-class family, although he worked in an Internet company with a good face in the industry, and received a considerable salary, but due to the limited budget, in order to get on the car early, the house was only bought in Daxing.
From living in a basement in Beijing to owning a house of more than 90 square meters, it was his only motivation in Dachang 996.
"At that time, the only rest day of the week was spent in viewings. In 2017, when Xiaoliang got on the bus, he was in the rising cycle of housing prices in Beijing, and in his and his parents' cognition, getting on the car as soon as possible was to save money in the future.
"I felt guilty that the down payment had drained my parents' savings, and they reassured me that as long as I could gain a foothold in Beijing, it would be worth everything. ”
The parents contributed money and effort to the house, Xiaoliang was busy with work at that time, and they were all in charge of the decoration. "You can feel that they really put their heart and soul into it", and now when he thinks about it, he feels that he has failed his parents' hard work.
After living in the house for less than half a year, he lived back near the company because of his commuting, "commuting to work for an hour and a half, and crossing most of Beijing to go to work every day, which is really unbearable." ”
Renting a house is renting, Xiaoliang never thought about selling a house a few years ago, "I finally have a nest, although the location is not very good, it is a big deal to replace it in the future." ”
In the middle of 2023, his department suffered a "continuous end", except for the transferred management, all the rest were laid off without exception. Although the company paid him a handsome amount in compensation, enough for him to spend the first half of the year in Beijing without looking for a job, Xiaoliang described it as the last straw that overwhelmed him.
"I used to think that I could stay in Beijing and change my destiny by working hard, but in the face of the unpredictable times, these seem to be really not worth mentioning. He felt that Beipiao had been like a dream all these years, and the "fruit" of this dream, a house, did not belong to him when he woke up from the dream.
"I don't want to stay here anymore, the house is just a lot of burden, and the current housing market is hard to explain. ”
Making the decision to sell the house is undoubtedly difficult, Xiaoliang hid from his parents and sold the house, but there were few people who asked for it for half a year, and he had to deal with the agent's price reduction PUA from time to time.
"The intermediary business is not good now, in the past, I was led by their words as a buyer, but I didn't expect that now my identity has been changed to a seller, but there is no market. ”
"Now selling a house pays attention to an opportunity", judging from Xiaoliang's experience, many times it is not whether your house is good enough, but whether you can meet the right "destined person", just when he almost decided to drop another 800,000 yuan, someone finally "took over".
"From the initial blind optimism about the market, to the anxiety rendered by the intermediary, and then to the final inadvertent shot, the moment the transaction was completed, I had a sense of trance when I woke up from a big dream. ”
The loss is a loss of 800,000 yuan, "Half of the compensation of the current owner is pasted in, which is regarded as the tuition fee I paid for the dream of North Drifting." ”
"Along with the million-dollar single apartment, there is also my fantasy of marriage"
The house taught Lucky a lesson, more realistic.
As a single woman who bought a house in Beijing, Lucky once firmly believed that a small house for self-occupation was an important bargaining chip for girls from other places to get married in Beijing.
"It's very realistic for everyone to find a partner in Beijing, whether you have a house or not, whether you have a Beijing household, is much more important than simple appearance and education. Over the years of Beipiao, she has relied on the confidence given by this set of Lofts outside the East Fifth Ring Road to persevere.
The apartment also inadvertently witnessed a change in her view of love, "Maybe it's really like Virginia Woolf said, every woman should have a room of her own." ”
The first boyfriend she dated, she once very generously invited him to live in the apartment she bought, because she didn't have any loans, she didn't collect rent from the other party. "At that time, it was really simple, I never calculated the economic account, in today's words, it is a love brain, I think we have a home in Beijing, isn't it great, who pays is so important?"
However, after living together for more than a year, the ex-boyfriend cheated on him and would rather move out of Lucky's free apartment every month for full rent. "This incident hit me so hard that my parents scolded me after knowing that I didn't collect rent from the other party, and they thought that I had let my boyfriend run away because of the price drop. ”
In the face of her second boyfriend, Lucky learned to be smart, and at the beginning of their cohabitation, he proposed to the other party to pay the rent symbolically, "He has good economic conditions, and he basically pays the living expenses during our relationship." thought that this time she could move towards marriage "naturally", but on the eve of the other party's proposal to Lucky, she retreated herself.
"I can't tell what's wrong, maybe it's because he's a financial man, and many times he is very rational and restrained, weighing the pros and cons, and I'm essentially a bit of a young woman in literature and art, and I don't feel much emotional concentration from him. ”
"It's like this apartment of mine, I used to think about how to add some smoke and human flavor to it, but in the end, it seemed to be just wishful thinking on my part. ”
Lucky is 36 years old this year, and has passed the most intense stage of her parents' urging to get married, and the girlfriends around her are separated and scattered, "At this age, many things are more clear than before, such as people don't have to get married, they don't have to take root in a certain place, if they feel lonely, then this place can't be called home." ”
She decided to leave Beijing and live in Thailand, both to look for money-making opportunities in Southeast Asia and to prepare for retirement in the future. "I know that the house is now priceless and unmarketable, and the people around me have been persuading me to rent it out first, which can be regarded as leaving a way out for myself, but my thoughts about Beijing are gone, so what else do I need to retreat?"
In the past, things always had to come to an end, and Lucky's apartment was cheap when he bought it, and now although the price of the house has fallen, from the perspective of income, he can still make a fortune. "I'm not that much of a money-conscious person, whether the market is good or bad, it doesn't matter so much to me, I just want to sell the house to someone who will treat it well, and as for the price, if the person is right, I can make some. ”
"In the past few months, have any of the people who come to see the house that you like?"
"There is a couple in their early 30s who are not bad, both of them work in the publishing industry, the salary is not high, but you can see that they still have some enthusiasm for life, other people come to see the house, within ten sentences to start lowering the price, all kinds of strategies, but they are quite different, they want to have a home in Beijing, the kind they can live together. ”
Lucky said that if her house can help others realize her past dreams, she is willing to "make it happen", and she no longer cares whether the house price rises or falls in the future.
Words: MK
编辑：Sebastian