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It’s time to stop thinking of Millennials as totally uninterested in owning anything
just because they were early adopters of Uber. The newly released U.S. home
ownership rate rose in 2018 for the first time in 13 years—it now stands at 64.2
percent—driven mainly by a shift toward owning over renting by the under-35
crowd who’d been wary of committing for both financial and personal reasons.
“This is happening because young households are buying homes,” Ralph
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Journal. They’re not the only purchasers, of course. But if you’re looking to sell
your house now or in the not-too-distant future, you might want to check out
this generational roadmap of four upgrades experts say are worth it to help attract
potential buyers.
*Cross-generational: a new steel door. The only thing that beat it on
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but this project—with a 90.7 percent return on investment—speaks directly to
the report’s main takeaway: “Curb appeal projects, by and large, generated higher
returns on investment than work done inside the home.”
Plus, as far as Millennials go, while their ideal interiors may differ from
older generations—for example, they prefer open floor plans and
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“traditional” exteriors.
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systems from their phones. They want to use their
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they adjusted the heat or closed the garage door.
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already in place. So if the first thing prospects notice even
before exiting their cars looks like something out of the
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costs, in terms of return on investment, since prospective buyers’ tastes can clash
with yours. However, Millennials love, love, love all-new stainless steel appliances.
So much so that what RealtyTimes.com called “an astonishing majority of 75
percent” of respondents in a recent survey chose to spend their hypothetical home
buying budgets on them.