113 Thoughtful Ways to Say “Congratulations on Your New Home”

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“Congratulations on your new home!”

Nothing is as satisfying (or exciting or nerve-racking) as watching that “for sale” sign come down in front of a house and knowing that the home is now yours. Buying a house is a huge accomplishment, representing years of hard work, saving, strategizing and sacrifice. And whether someone is buying their first home or their forever home, it’s definite cause for celebration. That’s why we’re sharing some of the best ways to say “congratulations on your new home!” Yes, even if they’re moving away and you’ll miss them terribly—perhaps especially if that’s the case.

Whether you’re congratulating family members, friends or new neighbors you hope will become good friends, you’ll need to know exactly what to say to help them start this new chapter of their lives. If you’re struggling to find the right words, these new home wishes will express just how happy you are for them.

What should you write in a housewarming card?

When writing housewarming wishes, you’ll likely want to start with a congratulations message. However, new home wishes need to go beyond that. They should convey a special blend of pride, happiness, humor and excitement for the future. There aren’t any hard-and-fast etiquette rules you need to follow, and whether you go with something heartfelt or funny will really depend on your personality and your relationship with the new homeowner. A funny quip can also ease the stress of moving and make them forget about all the boxes they need to unpack … at least for a little while.

Ahead, you’ll find plenty of fun and thoughtful ways to say “congratulations on your new home.” Even better? These messages are sure to score you an invite to their place sometime soon!

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New home wishes for first-time homeowners

• Congratulations on buying your first home! May it be filled to the roof with love, laughter and happy memories.

• I’m so excited for you—saying “home sweet home” never gets old!

• Best wishes with your move and getting settled into your first place!

• Here’s to a new chapter in your lives as homeowners. May your first home have plenty of laughter, joy and memories—and no basement leaks!

• Here’s to dreams coming true! I’m so happy your dream of becoming a homeowner finally happened.

• Any house is made of boards and beams. Your first home is made of hopes and dreams.

• Congrats on your first house! I’m so excited to get lost in IKEA with you now!

• Nice job on the adulting!

• Love your new place! Enjoy settling in and making it all yours.

• This house is amazing. You are amazing. This is going to be amazing. That is all.

• All my love and well wishes as you turn this new house into your home.

• Your first home is the beginning of an exciting new chapter in your life. So happy for you!

• I know you’ve been saving for this for a long time—I’m so proud of you for accomplishing this dream.

• This is a huge first step, and I know it was a little scary, but I’m so excited for you to grow into this home.

• Cheers to your new adventure in homeownership. May it be full of fun, joy, love and home repairs. (It’s inevitable—sorry!)

• Good luck with your big move! So happy that you guys have finally found your dream home.

• Congratulations on your new place! This is where memories are made—and may you make many beautiful ones here.

• How does it feel holding those new house keys in your hand? So excited to share this big moment with you!

• New home, new place, new beginnings, new you!

• This new home is absolutely perfect, and I couldn’t be happier for you!

Send your housewarming wishes with a bouquet from one of the best online flower delivery services, or bring over a card in person.

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New home wishes for family

• We’re so excited to make some fun memories with you in your new home!

• So excited to hear about your new house! P.S. If you really love me, you won’t ask me to help you move.

• Remember: The longest road out is the shortest road home—especially for family.

• So excited for you to move out and get your own place! Now, which room is mine?

•  I remember watching you decorate your first dollhouse—I’m so excited to see what you do with the real deal. (But no purple flowered wallpaper, right?)

• Love the new place—it’s very you. (And you are one of my favorite people in the world!)

• Congratulations on your home. I hope you make as many beautiful memories in it with your family as we have together in our family home.

• Good luck with your new home! We miss you already, but you can still come visit anytime you like.

• Please accept these towels as a housewarming gift. (I really wanted to pick out your shower fixtures, but Mom said that would be weird.)

• Congratulations on your beautiful home. Let the decorating games begin!

• May your walls ring with love and laughter, and may we always be a part of it.

• Your new home is the starting place of new love, hope and dreams. So excited for your new beginning!

• Remember when we used to “play house” as kids? Super excited to play house with you again in your new place—but this time, I promise not to light anything on fire.

• Good luck, and may God bless you as you and your family settle into your new home.

• May your family have many happy years together in your beautiful home.

• Congratulations on your new home! I love you, and I can’t wait to visit you soon.

• You know what they say: Family is forever. So which room is mine?

• The new house is great! As your big brother/sister, I never thought I’d say this to you, but well done on the adulting!

• Here’s everything you need for your move to your new home: chocolate for when it gets bad, Ibuprofen for when it gets really bad, and Dad’s phone number for when all hell breaks loose.

When they’re up to their eyeballs in boxes, send them a “thinking of you” message to make them smile. It will be very appreciated!

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New home wishes for neighbors

• New neighbors, new home, new fun!

• Welcome to the neighborhood! When can I come check out your new living room, and will the Super Bowl be on?

• Congratulations on your new home. We just know you’re going to love it here—we certainly do!

• So glad you moved in! May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends—new and old.

• Welcome to the hive! We’re so excited to bee your new neighbors.

• Welcome to the neighborhood! When you’re ready, we’d love to show you around.

• I saw you have a riding mower. Welcome to the neighborhood, bestie.

• So glad you’re here! I’m sorry I wasn’t around to help you move in! (No, I’m not, but it seemed like the neighborly thing to say.)

• Welcome to your new home! If you need anything, mi casa es su casa!

• We’re so glad you’re here, and we’re excited to get to know you guys better.

• High-fives all around—the house is yours now!

• New neighbors are found treasures. We’re excited to get to know you more.

• A new home! You know what this means, right? Party time!

• So excited to meet you and get to know you better! Let me know when you’re ready for visitors, and I’ll bring the coffee and you bring the chatting!

• Howdy, new neighbors! Congratulations on the new home!

• Welcome, neighbors! Here’s to summer barbecues, winter snowball fights and never being weird about parking spots.

• So excited you’re here! Let us know if you need help moving in.

• Welcome to the neighborhood! There are only two rules: 1. Know that everyone’s walls are paper thin. 2. Pretend they aren’t.

• We were so happy to hear that you bought the house next door to us, and we can’t wait to meet you. Congratulations on your home!

• Warmest wishes for your housewarming!

• Welcome! Please enjoy this six-pack, and toast with me: Here’s to staying home and waiting for the snow to melt instead of shoveling!

When you do get together for that drink, be ready to raise a glass with one of the best toasts for the occasion.

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Funny new home wishes

• Enjoy this housewarming essentials kit: WD-40 for everything that doesn’t move and should; duct tape for everything that moves and shouldn’t; and garbage bags to hide the rest.

• Congrats on the 30-year mortgage! Your ex was wrong—clearly you’re not afraid of commitment!

• Just remember this when it comes to home repairs: Home wasn’t built in a day.

• Allow me to say this new home blessing: May your foundation always be without cracks, may your ceiling always be without asbestos, may your roof never leak and may your paint never be leaded. (You did have those things checked, right?)

• Welcome to the club of people who have a plumber, a pest-control specialist and a handyman in their most-frequent-contacts list.

• You must be so happy buying your first home—but I bet your parents are even happier!

• Congrats to you, and condolences to your neighbors. Have you told them how you like to garden in the nude?

• Great news! Now if you ever get lost, you can find your way home!

• Congrats on the new place. When can I invite myself over?

• So now that you can’t afford to go out anymore, what are we going to do for fun, and why is it always going to be in your living room?

• Even though you have a new address, here’s hoping the Wi-Fi password stays the same.

• Congratulations on your new home. Condolences on the mortgage. Welcome to adulting!

• Have you ever thought about how much debt, responsibility and worry come with a new home? Yeah, so here’s a card. Hope it helps!

• So glad you got your own home! This will make it way easier to overstay my welcome now.

• They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a picture I took of your new home. From the bushes. At night. You’re welcome.

• Here’s hoping your new neighbors aren’t weirdos! (Or at least are less weird than we were—good luck!)

• I think it’s so cool you bought the haunted house. You’re so brave! Wait, you did know it’s haunted, right?

• So excited to see you fill your new home with love, laughter and laundry.

• Congrats! Home is where you never have to wear a bra!

• Did you really think that moving to a new house would keep me from coming over to use your toilet? I’m shocked you don’t know me better by now.

• Home isn’t where the heart is. Home is where your Wi-Fi connects automatically.

If you’re loving these hilarious ways to say “congratulations on your new home,” keep these funny quotes on hand to tell at the housewarming party.

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Inspiring new home wishes and blessings

• Wishing you all the love and happiness your new home can hold.

• Home isn’t just where you’re from—it’s the light in the darkness, the beacon in the storm and the place you go to when everything is falling apart.

• Home is heaven on Earth, and I’m excited for you to create your own little slice of heaven.

• Wishing you all the best in your new home. May it bring you joy and comfort for years to come.

• Home is a place of warmth and comfort, and may yours be a sanctuary for you and your loved ones.

• A new home isn’t just a new address—it’s new fun, new memories, new tears and new joys. Congratulations!

• Buying a house takes just a moment of time, but creating a home takes a lifetime. Here’s to a lifetime of joy and happiness here.

• You, the home, the garden, the city, the sunset: This couldn’t be more perfect, and I’m so excited to see where you go from here.

• A new home is like any big change in life—it’s so, so hard but also so, so worth it.

• Your new home is fun, charming, interesting and full of possibilities—just like you!

• Nothing is more cathartic than moving: You can clear out your past, box up your present and move on to a brighter future.

• This is your new happy place!

• Moving can be the happiest kind of math. New country = new home. New place = new adventures. New friends = new memories.

• I love you so much, and I’m sad to see you go, but I’m so excited for you and can’t wait to watch you make this home your own.

• Best of luck with this move, and remember: Love your neighbor, but don’t remove your fence.

• Welcome to your new home: May your heart live where your feet rest.

• This is a huge accomplishment, and I’m so proud of you and everything you’ve done to get to this place. I hope you can take a minute and truly appreciate all the good things you’ve done and the hard work you’ve put in to get here.

For more ideas on new home wishes, check out these inspirational quotes that they’ll remember long after they’ve settled into their new home.

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Best new home quotes

• “And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.” —Charles Dickens

• “No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.” —L. Frank Baum
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• “Home is a shelter from storms—all sorts of storms.” —William J. Bennett

• “Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.” —Lydia Maria Child

• “At home you always have to be a politician. When you’re abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.” —Harold Macmillan

• “Go where he will, the wise man is at home.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Home is the nicest word there is.” —Little House on the Prairie

• “They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.” —Emily Dickinson

• “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.” —Winston Churchill

• “A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove its title?” —Mark Twain

• “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” —Jane Austen

• “Your home should tell the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love.” —Nate Berkus

• “But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: ‘Home is home, be it never so homely.”‘ —Henry David Thoreau

• “Home is where one starts from.” —T.S. Eliot

Like these new home quotes and wishes, these inspirational quotes will motivate your loved ones to keep moving forward.

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