What Hombuyers Will Want in the Coming Year...

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I naturally enjoy keeping up with real estate publications. The newest issue of "The Residential Specialist" discusses how upscale home buyers like to use their living rooms as parlors, libraries, or even music rooms. Younger buyers (in their 30s and 40s) prefer open floor plans with a kitchen, spacious eating area, and family room, all in one. With entertainment becoming more casual, buyers no longer demand the formal dining rooms of a prior generation.

This trend comes as no surprise to real-estate watchers or to an agent such as myself. A unique home I'm marketing (9301 Harrington Drive in Potomac, Maryland) features such an open floor plan. The builder and architect were ahead of their time in providing a flexible and rearrangeable living space.