Are you looking for an easy way to refresh your home?
Try starting with your walls. The right wall decor can bring a home together, display your unique tastes, and create interesting dimensions within your home.
Below are 6 creative ways to refresh your wall decor.
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Are you looking for design inspiration for your current or new home?
Today I am sharing 5 long-term home design trends for 2022 and beyond, investing in these trends can be a good option to maintain or increase the future value of your home.
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We are midway through the year and the housing market remains strong. While sales prices continue to rise, demand has cooled a bit at a national level as many buyers are getting priced out. I view this short-term cooling of demand as a positive, ideally price will take a breather. If the price increase does cool, I expect demand to come back quickly and prices will continue with their upward trend.
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It’s all about supply and demand.
There’s been no shortage of news around rising costs of building material. Lumber prices have risen 377% over the past year. Copper wire and Steel have also seen a significant increase over the past year.
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My story has been consistent over the last several months. It’s a competitive market in favor of sellers.
However, to be competitive and maximize the value of your home you have to have what buyers are looking for.
Here are the top 4 upgrades buyers are looking for when buying a home post-pandemic.
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The real estate market is strong and we’re looking at a good setup going into the prime real estate season. While we did have a slowdown in new and existing home sales in February, we were still up significantly year over year. It seems the February slowdown was primarily influenced by the weather.
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As I discussed in my previous post, home prices are at record highs, rising 10.1% in December 2020.
We’re in a seller’s market, which in turn makes it competitive for buyers. In this post, I will share with you 5 tips on how to prepare you to get the home you want in a competitive market.
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The pandemic has accelerated many things. One acceleration that I’ve observed is the connected home. With more people working from home and building out more at home “comforts”, I’ve been asked more about connected home devices.
This year, I’m writing my version of a holiday gift guide with my favorite connected home devices.
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“Is it better to rent than buy?”. This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get from my millennial clients.
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As the current pandemic looms, parts of the economy are still moving. One of those is the real estate market.
Buyers are still researching, viewing, and buying homes. However, given the uncertainty, fewer sellers are listing, which according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is creating a greater inventory shortage.
This puts savvy sellers in a good position because buyers are still looking and there’s less inventory so less selling competition. More importantly, according to the NAR, in a recent survey, 74% of agents reported that sellers have not been dropping prices.
I believe that, given the lower inventory, if you’re a seller you have a good opportunity to cater to the buyers out there in need of the right property.
How do you cater to these buyers?
Below are some tips that can put you in a good selling position in today’s environment.
As you know, things look different on camera, and with buyers now viewing homes virtually it’s important to stage your home properly to ensure the camera effectively captures the space and dimensions.
On virtual tours, it’s extremely important to remove clutter so the space comes through clearly.
Additionally, you’ll want to arrange the furniture to show the maximum space on video as well as accurately depicting the dimensions.
I recommend taking some pictures as you’re staging your home so you can see what potential buyers will be seeing.
I’ve been giving virtual tours with my properties and I always ensure the rooms look great on camera before any showings.
Coming out of the pandemic, I believe that buyers will start placing a premium on spaces that were sometimes overlooked in the past. Here are three that I believe you should emphasize in your listing.
Home office space
I think the work from home trend is going to continue into the future. While I don’t think we’ll go to a complete work from home environment, I think more companies will start opening to the change, given the grand work from home experiment during the pandemic.
For this reason, a premium will be placed on home office space. So if you have space for a home office make sure it is emphasized.
If you don’t have a dedicated room for an office, consider staging the home to showcase how the space you have could be utilized as a small workspace setup.
Home gym space
During the pandemic people have become more accustomed to working out at home, thus learning how to and becoming accustomed to at-home workouts. This puts a premium on home gym space.
Do you have a nice gym in your condo or a nice dedicated space in your house with workout equipment? If so make sure it’s highlighted as buyers will be considering this as they are searching for homes.
Outdoor space
Personal outdoor space will also become even a greater premium. As people have become more and more restricted indoors personal green space and fresh air has become coveted. Do you have a terrace, patio, yard, balcony? If so, highlight it and stage it, this will be an advantage as buyers will start moving outdoor space up on the list of “must-haves”.
Are you considering selling your home virtually? Please contact me if you are in need of an agent to show you how to maximize the value of your home.