Thinking About Finding the Right-Sized Home?

Thinking About Finding the Right-Sized Home?

With the historically low mortgage interest rates and well-priced properties, we are increasingly finding that buyers and sellers are changing their ideas about finding the biggest home for the right-sized home. Smaller, more efficient homes are more attractive than ever.

It seems as though the work hard, buy a home, start a family and continue to upgrade thinking is rapidly changing. Looking back over the past 50 years, this has been the blueprint for lots of homeowners.

Compared to other Nations, Americans live in much larger homes than most people throughout the world. In 2006, the U.S. Census reported the average single family home had 2,469 square feet which was 769 feet more than the survey conducted in 1976.

Given the current economy, homeowners are looking for ways to cut costs and one thought is that once the children are grown and have moved out, homeowners are finding they have too much room. Even if their home is paid for, they have higher property taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance on the larger home than they'd have if they were living in the "right size" home.

Some homeowners state they're keeping their larger home because it has luxury features that smaller homes don't have. There's a movement that seems to have started in the United States to find the right-size home with the amenities and convenience that homeowners want.

This philosophy has been expressed by Sarah Susanka in her book Creating the Not So Big House. It proposes a house that "values quality over quantity with an emphasis on comfort and beauty, a high level of detail, and a floor plan designed for today's informal lifestyle."

We’d love to help you discover the right-sized home. And we can also help you visualize how a smaller home that’s well designed, can offer most of the features of a much larger home. We have a list of builders and remodelers to help get you to the right-sized home.

Call us and we’ll help get you going in the RIGHT direction!

Thinking About Finding the Right-Sized Home?