Will Investing in Smart Home Technology Increase Your Home’s Value?

Smart home technology is rapidly advancing and ranges from a smart home assistant — such as Google Home or Amazon Alexa — to complex systems managing every aspect of a residence. While some homeowners make the assumption that adding smart home technology will increase their home’s value, Mansion Global warns that things aren’t quite so simple: “Your home’s smart technology could give you an edge over other sellers whose homes don’t have it, but it’s challenging to assign a dollar value to it, experts say.”

Move over Millennials: Gen Z Enters the Housing Market

It seems that millennials have dominated much of the real estate conversation over the past few years, as their hesitancy to purchase following the economic downturn has gradually shifted toward leaps into homeownership. But now, Inman proclaims that it’s time for millennials to move over, as more and more buyers from Gen Z are emerging onto the market; and according to their estimates, “about 100,000 homebuyers in the current housing market were born after 1995.”

MillennialsAaron FreemanApril 12, 2018Millennials, Homeownership, Generation Z, Gen Z, Inman, Real Estate Trends, HomebuyingComment

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Brand NewsAaron FreemanAugust 14, 2017Sotheby's International Realty, Apple TV, Media, Virtual Reality, Inman, VR, The Wall Street Journal, YouTubeComment

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