Eco home renovationsSelling your home - Part 1
Eco home renovations - What projects should you undertake to appeal to the largest market and which give you the best possible resale value?
Add into the mix holistic interior design and where do you even begin. Selling your home can be troublesome and going about home improvements to increase the resale value can be just as difficult.
The good news is that your green home with its ‘eco touch’ will help your resale potential.
More and more green homes are being built, which means in a few years the market for green home resale will be a lot larger and predictably much more in demand. Plus conventional building techniques will eventually be phased out due to the energy inefficient nature and unsustainable building techniques. Eco lifestyle is no longer a niche choice, it is becoming the preferred and in the long term, the only choice. Whether you only use natural materials to redecorate your home or go the whole hog and build a prefab eco house, the resale potential increases over conventional homes as you are offering something more valuable than a structure.
What can be more valuable than health, wellbeing and the natural environment? You are also creating a unique selling point which you can use when people are viewing your home.
It is not just perceived value that is being added either, as in the long term it is a tangible value – health, return and operating costs wise.
If your home renovations go so far as to implement green elements such as solar power, reduced energy use, insulation, energy efficient heating and cooling systems, ventilation and the use of natural light then all the better.
Green homes are an attractive offer as the home owner will save money on energy and water bills - plus with higher quality systems in your home the house price will be higher than a home with conventional systems. However, as always the array of greenwashed products and materials in the home improvement market could mean you are buying into false promises and passing those false promises onto someone else. Not a nice thought from an ethical perspective.
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