Buyers Can’t Find Perfect Home in Existing Inventory
Filed under: Building a New Home
Can buyers find the perfect home in Sequim or Port Angeles? I’ve spent time with several out-of-state clients over the past several months looking for the perfect home. Here’s the scenario. With budgets in the range of $350,000 to $800,000, these clients scoured the MLS online to find homes that might be ideal. After narrowing it down to a reasonable number of possible homes and filtering through the best prospects, these clients arrived to do the walk-throughs.
Here’s the common theme: “We just can’t find the perfect home with a kitchen, general floor plan, and garage and acreage and view the way we want. The only way we are going to get exactly the home we want on the lot we want is if we have our home built by a custom home builder.”
This is not an isolated experience. For the buyers who are looking for a home that is in the current inventory, they will be pleased to be able to move in at closing right away. For buyers who have the time and prefer to have their own perfect home design, buying a lot in the right location and with the preferred view, hiring a contractor and having their dream home built is the ultimate experience.
There are many homes on the market that are discounted, either because of a foreclosure or because the owners have gotten upside down and need to do a short sale, or simply because the house must be sold. But in the vast majority of cases, these homes are not precisely what many retirees would prefer. Building a home the way you want may be the best option, even if it does cost a little more.
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November 14th, 2009 at 2:06 am
The problem is, it’s hard to find empty lots with a good location in most mature markets.
If the house is just a tad too short of their dream home, buyers may consider doing a renovation, if they are up for it.
By the way, I was intrigued by your $5,000 credit offer, however, the link returns an error 404.