Maybe. But what if the something else is he just likes his house and doesn't want to sell. He has enough money to cover his retired lifestyle cost and he enjoys

Maybe. But what if the something else is he just likes his house and doesn't want to sell. He has enough money to cover his retired lifestyle cost and he enjoys living in his house. There's nothing wrong with that. In free market you are free not to sell your property even if somebody offers you 100x it's market value. Nobody can force you to sell if you want to keep it. And besides the millennial guy from the article couldn't afford $2 million anyways (he wants to spend 200k) so that question was pointless anyways because even if the old person said yes he doesn't have the cash.