Danniston Crescent and Turnberry Road!
Danniston is off of Wildflower and backs on to the ravine, while Turnberry is just down Wildflower on the other side of Des Epinettes.
What did they have in common BESIDES upgraded kitchens, bathrooms and hardwood floors?
- Hardwood on the main level stairs
- Interlocked and landscaped backyards
- An in-ground pool
What about the top selling features in other Orleans pockets?
Convent Glen, Chapel Hill, Fallingbrook, Avalon – What do you want to know?
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Briarfield Crescent off of Deancourt which is off of Princess Louise (FallingBrook)
Hi Rob,
Thanks for writing.
You’re area is Fallingbrook/ Ridgemount, which mainly consists of the Pricess Louise Crescent and the smaller crescents that come off of it. Did you know you live right next to Adam and Zeyad Elsaadi?
Here we go…
Within the past 12 months there have been 118 total sales in your direct area.
The top 10 highest selling homes are all on different streets, so there is no real ‘sweet spot’ per se. I do notice however, that you have many 4, 5 and 6 bathroom houses!
No real consistency in features either besides two car garages and big yards. Some have incredibly landscaped backyards, very spacious and unique living areas and others have very rich flooring. What this means is that you can play to both your strengths and whatever natural feature your current home has, and really blow the market away with one or two huge selling features. There seems to be no magic upgrade that is doing it for everyone in this area.
Specifically on Briarfield would be a good way to look at things. Maybe I can narrow a valuable trend or two down. Lets see…
9 homes on Briarfield in the past 12 months.
208K to 234K for an average of 221K and 28 days on market on average.
The consistencies I find with the top three on Briarfield are Hardwood floors, excellent paint jobs and one more extra – be it hardwood upstairs, a deck in the back, or a beautifully finished basement.
The bottom three all need a paint makeover! IF YOU HAVE UGLY PAINT in YOUR HOUSE when you TRY to sell – eesh. I will come over and paint it myself if I have to! This is a consistent factor amoung the cheapest houses on your street. The other factor is cheap flooring. Now carpet and laminate arent necessarily bad – but the wrong kind or quite frankly an ugly kind, are bad! If you are making some upgrades and decide to stay on a tight budget – go real heavy on the workmanship and overall appearance.
One thing I noticed – REALLY INTERESTING. No one has upgraded kitchens or bathrooms. Ok, I should quantify that – no one has DRAMATICALLY updated kitchens. Quite often you see some that have stainless steel appliances, or the granite counter tops. NOPE, not here! Looks like you can get away with some average upgrading in those respects (which is weird because they are usually the biggest selling feature). For that matter, if you really want to stand out, maybe you want to be the only one with dramatic upgrades in those areas.
I hope that gave you an idea of what the sales acitivity is like in your area, and what kind of features are getting what kind of response when it comes to buying and selling.
Thanks again for asking,
Cheers