What is your home's best selling point?

In My Humble Opinion
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Man, I’m jealous of nearly all your homes.

Location’s the seller for my place.

Five minutes walk from a tube station (and a bit longer to several more), a minutes’ walk from a train station, several buses just outside that go to all the major train terminii in London.

About a fifteen minute walk (maybe ten) to the City - that is, Liverpool St. Fifteen minutes’ walk to Old St/Shoreditch. Twenty minutes by bus or tube to the West End. Lots of jobs around, in other words.

A ridiculous number of museums, art galleries (easily over thirty within a twenty minute walk’s radius of the house - actually, probably a lot more than that), as well as historic buildings such as Sutton House, the Tower of London, the Geoffrey Museum, etc etc.

Tons of parks, from the tiny courtyard in front of the flat to the enormous Victoria Park less than ten minutes’ walk away.

Pretty much every cuisine you can think of is cooking food for you within walking distance of home.

A BIG music and pub scene. It’s very ‘trendy.’

Good schools and lots of facilities for children.

Plus it’s set back from the main road and is really quite quiet.

These are the main reasons the selling price would probably be about £280k despite it only being a two-bedroom 1-bathroom flat.

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I am also in the jealous camp! Hot tubs? Views? Pools? Decks? Gardens? Big yards? Quiet neighbourhoods? Nature around? Sounds ideal to me!

Our place is okay. Best selling point, if we were to sell (and I’d make the realtor put it in the write up) would be the location–we are nestled against a regional park, so I really am not sure where my back yard ends and the park starts. It’s in a mobile home complex which is quite well-run (no junk cars, drunken Saturday nights, or trashy folks) and quiet, with no through traffic. It’s so quiet that I can hear the sound of bird wings when they fly overhead and it’s easy to tell when a hummingbird is around. So being able to just walk into a nice regional park, enjoy the quiet, and have good neighbours on either side (each a single person) is a good selling point. Let’s see…

Two bedrooms, two baths and a roomy den. Fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer (high end front loader) and dryer included. Bright, with plenty of windows, room to park three vehicles, and updated with new carpet, paint, lino and a drywalled ceiling. Ensuite bath off master bedroom. Landscaped with mature rhododendrons and arbutus trees in an easy-care lot. Enjoy Mill Hill Park behind you–walk into the park any time you are in the mood for nature! Or let nature come to you: deer, rabbits, raccoons, owls, and more come to visit. One-level living. Heat pump. Two storage/garden sheds. Back yard has a lovely shaded patio and garden area. Pad fee includes water, sewer, garbage, recycling and park amenities.

But yes, location (if you like nature and greenery around you) and quiet are probably the best features.

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Well I’m renting at the moment but the pluses:

  1. It’s a flat in a Grade II listed 200 year old Georgian townhouse with original panelling and tall georgian windows and ceilings.
  2. It’s on the best street in a world heritage site (Greenwich, London, UK) with the glorious Greenwich Park and Observatory just at the end of the street.

Minuses

  1. It’s small
  2. No garden
  3. Greenwich attracts 400,000 tourists a week (really), and I think every single one of them walks up my street to get to the Observatory just so they can stand on the Meridian line.
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When my house was listed for sale, the feature that was prominently noted in the ad and pointed out by the realtor was a shed. A small plywood crappy shed on the lakeshore.

NOt the location, view or wooded privacy but a shed. The house was nothing special, it was all location and that shed.

Turns out it was a "grandfathered"shed and current zoning prohibits outbuildings near the water. Didn’t matter we tore it down anyway.

Now the best house feature is a recent addition that gave us a very comfortable lounge area, spacious, with a tall ceiling, a-wall of windows, in-floor heat, and a hilltop view of the lake framed by tall trees

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The Atlantic Ocean is out front.

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– The new 300-square-foot kitchen that I’m currently gutting much of the house to create. Which opens to the dining room and the family room. And the flow. A good house has to have flow.

– The 1,000-square-foot deck through the new French doors from the new kitchen.

– The newly terraced hill in the backyard beautifully landscaped by Mrs. Kerrman that the deck overlooks.

– The wicked-cool treehouse I built for the kids in 2004.

– The cool, cool neighbors. One let us use her laundry when our well went dry. Two came and helped cut the grass on Sunday after the monsoons ended. One who helps me with the heavy lifting of the kitchen reno.

I am waaayyy too house proud, but I love seeing my work pay off. I took a maze of a house with a new addition and am turning it into a great space.

47

Better . . . Cleveland Heights. :slight_smile:

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Major selling point: the city I live in, Maastricht, is the Amsterdam of the Southern part of the Netherlands. Two thousand years old, a very pretty and pleasant city, lots of culture and beautiful architecture, sought after by tourists and people who want to work and live here.

My house is on the edge of the city center. It’s under a five minute walk to or drive to a supermarket and other shops, cafe’s, a doctor, the library, public transport, and the major roads. However, I have a beautiful garden, (30 feet deep, large for an inner city dweller, picture here).

My house is nothing special, especially not compared to some of the houses mentioned upthread. However, those are USA houses, and for a Dutch home in a modest price range, my house is very nice. The best things about my home are the light kitchen, master bedroom, and baby bedroom, all overlooking the garden.
Something else I would stress is how I had the ceiling professionally insulated wjen I moved in. Cost about 5000 USD, paid for half by the upstairs neighbours. But now both me and the upstairs neighbours have complete privacy. We can all play all the loud videogames we want till’ deep in the night without anyone complaining but our spouses. :slight_smile:

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The neighborhood is great–small subdivision with only one way in/out, so it’s great for walking/kids playing in the street. The neighbors are friendly, keep up their yards, help each other out. The house itself is fairly small and non-descript, but the yards are decent-sized (average 100 x 100 lots with houses around 1600 sq. ft. so you’re not jammed up against the house next door.)

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We’ve got a great nearly new kitchen, added onto the house just a few years ago by the previous owners, with a walk-in pantry (that used to be part of the old kitchen).

We have two gas fireplaces, one in the kitchen and one in the living room.

We have an herb garden right outside the French doors from the kitchen. The previous owners used to have a goldfish pond there.

We have hardwood flooring with subfloors. Most houses like ours around here just have the hardwood laid on the bare joists, without subfloors, which makes the floors very creaky and means you have to be careful where you put your furniture.

We have a powder room downstairs, which is kind of rare in our neighborhood (that was a feature we were looking for when we were looking at houses).

Buses that go to the universities, to some of the hospitals (the universities and the hospitals are two of the largest employers in Pittsburgh), and to downtown have a stop just a few houses down from us.

We can walk to shops, restaurants, a grocery store, and two different drug stores.

Our garage is on an alleyway behind the house, so you don’t have to worry about pulling out of the driveway onto a busy street. The driveway is very short, so there’s not much to shovel in the winter. Last summer, I had the two old and deteriorating garage doors taken off and had a new single large steel door put in. Two-car garages with a single large door are, for some reason, rare around here. But they make it so much easier to get in and out of the garage, especially when it’s snowy.

Downside: it’s on a hill, so you have to climb stairs to get up from the street or up to the garage in the back. But that’s Pittsburgh for you- you want flat, Ohio is that way.