- Green/energy-efficient 50 percent
- Building custom home 38 percent
- Water views 38 percent
- Mountain views 32 percent
- Suburban home 31 percent
- Near the beach 27 percent
- Cottage in the woods 20 percent
Divinebunbun lives in a log cabin on 100 acres in the rocky Ozark foothills. Her porch is a box seat on nature and the seasons. This is her journal of chores and mysteries, natural history photos, and observations.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
People's Dream Houses
The local paper printed a recent survey from Yahoo Real Estate about what U.S. home buyers want, even in these days "when one in three Americans knows someone who has experienced a foreclosure" (the way one in three Americans "knows someone who had crabs"). The least wanted features today are: gated communities, urban locations, and castle-style homes (!). The most wanted home features are:
Yep, the cottage in the woods is my ambition.
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