Window Box Popularity Soaring With Real Estate Agents
The real estate game is a big game to be in. Every year in the United States alone, the trillion dollar industry seems to just keep growing. With the housing market in 2008 lower than usual, real estate moguls are looking for an edge and for unique selling points to help them sell homes. Plain homes have been harder than usual to sell in the current buyers market and it's the homes that offer the most upgrades that are doing well in the industry. Curb appeal, as every real estate agent knows, is near the top of the list as important factors that increases a homes sellability. Real estate agents love when the home seller has put in the effort to make the home attractive on the outside so they can have a happy customer before they even take them to the inside of the home. The window box is a powerful tool and cost-effective way to add curb appeal to a home and put a smile on a realtors face. Agents love window boxes because they are unique selling points for a home and they add curb appeal. Builders and home owners are starting to love them too, because they are a cheap and affordable way to totally change the feel of a home and put some life back into it.
Wooden window boxes can be purchased in the $50 - $250 price range and often just a couple of these will make a dramatic change to the face of a home. Also, rot free PVC window boxes have come down in price and made it that much more affordable to dress up a home and make it more sellable. Many of these look like wood and avoid the rotting and maintenance issues that wood have. These upgraded window boxes usually cost around $70 - $350, but last virtually forever. Rarely is it a bad move to put money into the outside of a home. The money you can make back just by getting it off the market quicker is almost always worth the investment. Realtors love it when they get compliments on a home before the potential home buyer walks in.
The window box is a secret strategy and a good weapon to have in the arsenal as a real estate agent and a builder. It's a good way to add landscaping that puts permanent value in a home and it's such a rarity, that you will set a house apart immediately in a good way. From a home buyers point of view, we make a list of houses that we consider as potential and we often list the pros and cons that each have to offer. When you can add a house to your list of potential homes and it has something unique to it that people remember, then you have an edge over the competition and a winning strategy in real estate.
Matthew Buquoi is the owner of Flower Window Boxes, a manufacturing company that makes maintenance free window boxes and custom window boxes.