There is no carryover with the home office deduction. That's a use-it-or-lose-it deduction. The only thing I can think is that your home office deduction for the old house was significantly higher than the deduction for the new house. If your actual expenses at the old house were a lot higher than the new one that could be part of the problem. If you are using the simplified method you should note that only one of the offices can use that and if you used it on the 25% office then the second office would have a significantly lower deduction unless the actual expenses are pretty high.
Walk back through the home office section and adjust which house takes the simplified method and make certain that all of your expenses are entered. If you're following those instructions then you're doing it correctly so there is definitely a data entry disconnect here.
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