You can make life at home better and increase
the resale value of your home by contributing your refund to home improvement projects.
When I remodeled my first kitchen 25 years ago, everyone warned me about diminishing the potential
resale value of my home by installing a white kitchen.
Not exact matches
«Certified
Resale Home offers tremendous value to home sellers and protection to home buyers by streamlining the transaction, providing more information transparency, particularly about «blind spots» such as the foundation, roof and heating and cooling systems,» says Mark Page, head of the initiat
Home offers tremendous
value to
home sellers and protection to home buyers by streamlining the transaction, providing more information transparency, particularly about «blind spots» such as the foundation, roof and heating and cooling systems,» says Mark Page, head of the initiat
home sellers and protection to
home buyers by streamlining the transaction, providing more information transparency, particularly about «blind spots» such as the foundation, roof and heating and cooling systems,» says Mark Page, head of the initiat
home buyers
by streamlining the transaction, providing more information transparency, particularly about «blind spots» such as the foundation, roof and heating and cooling systems,» says Mark Page, head
of the initiative.
A 2013 study
of Canadian
home owners sponsored
by Pfizer Canada found that smoking in a
home could reduce the
resale value by up to 29 percent.
Adoption
of a flat tax without the mortgage interest and property tax deductions would mean 19 percent fewer
home resales and would push down the market
value of all
homes by about 15 percent, according to a study for NAR
by the economic consulting firm
of DRI / McGraw Hill.
Home values and prices would decline
by an average
of 15 percent,
resales volume
by about 19 percent, and housing starts
by 22 percent, compared with activity projected under current law.
«Kitchens and baths»... that's the expression used
by real estate folks to indicate the areas
of a
home that carry the most
resale value.
If your
home is close to a highway, train tracks, or an airport, the constant noise from cars zooming
by, trains rattling past, and planes landing can be distracting, thus dragging down the
resale value of the house.
Of the 30 most popular remodeling projects that retain
value at
resale, only one — attic insulation — averaged a high enough cost being recouped to pay for itself and adding to a
home resale's
value, according to a report
by Remodeling Magazine.