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5 Easy Ways to Transform Your Home’s Interior into Looking Like a Million Bucks
Vinyl/Wallpaper
Wallpaper and other similar materials can also help add visual value to your home. Although wallpaper can be expensive, materials like peelable vinyl can provide the same elegant look, without costing you a fortune.
Window Treatments
Window Treatments can definitely add luxury to any room in your home, especially if they are surrounded by a great view. Try neutral colors and curtains.
DIY Triptych
These very simple, elegant pieces can add a sophisticated appeal to your home. You can print free images from the web (try wiki commons) and cut the pieces out. Then place them in inexpensive frames from stores like IKEA or Marshalls.
Illusion
Fool your guests by creating an illusion. The larger than area rug, the bigger the room is going to feel. By adding a large rug to a room, you create the illusion that the room is actually bigger than it appears to be. Try using neutral colors to decorate.
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Shelf Space
Don’t crowd your shelves or space. Try standing items up on a shelf to create more space. Use colored items such as bright colored vases, to bring life and color to the room.
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Hurricane Sandy-Impacted Towns & Real Estate Market- What’s to Come?
I found this very interesting article on Yahoo Homes about towns impacted by Hurricane Sandy and the storm’s effect on the real estate market.
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Aside from homeowners who have completely lost their homes, it’s possible that rising market prices may eventually bail out those who refuse to sell their homes. According to Zillow’s Home Value Index, the bottom in these storm-impacted towns actually arrived in August, several months prior to the late October superstorm. Housing data supplied by Zillow suggests that the hurricane may have slowed the regional housing recovery but it hasn’t stalled it altogether.
Here’s what’s happening in four storm-impacted markets, according to the Zillow Home Value Index report:
- Mantoloking, N.J., the average home is $2.72 million up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis, but down from $3.25 million in April, 2008. The market appears to have bottomed in August 2012, nearly three months prior to Hurricane Sandy. Listings have dropped by 23% from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2013, according to Zillow.
- Brick, N.J., the average home is $219,700, up slightly from the August trough of $214,000, but down substantially off of April, 2008 levels of $280,000. While New Jersey has seen a 1.9% gain on a year-over-year basis, Brick is up only .6%. Listings have dropped by 12.4% from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2013, according to Zillow.
- Toms River, N.J., the average home is $236,000, up slightly from the August trough of $230,000, but down from $294,000 in April 2008. On the bright side, homes have climbed 2% on a year-over-year basis. However, the number of listings have dropped by 12% from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2013, according to Zillow.
- Long Island City, Queens, New York City (zip code: 11101), the average home is $465,700, down sharply from early November – the aftermath of Sandy – when prices were $490,000. However, the bottom appears to been reached in November 2011, when homes averaged $401,000. Though home values have dropped since Sandy, prices are still up 12.7% on a year-over-year basis. In zip code 11101, the number of listings have dropped by 42% from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2013, according to Zillow.
“The smart money is to sit tight and see how it all shakes out,” recommends Karen Hewson, a realtor who lives in Bay Head, N.J. She and her husband Richard, also a realtor with Gloria Nilson Real Living, lost the entire first floor of their home in the storm. “We had 17 inches of water in our house, but it’s all being repaired and life goes well,” she says. “By this summer the beaches will be open and life will be wonderful.”
Rosenkoff expects that it will take years for homes such as hers to be fully renovated and for housing prices to recover to the price she paid seven years ago for her one-story home in Toms River, N.J. “I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place, unless I walk away from my house, which I would never do, ” she says. “It’s very frustrating.” Meanwhile, homeowners, homebuyers and state and federal regulators are tracking these storm-impacted markets to see whether prices will continue to slowly recover.
Source: Yahoo Homes
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