Your Home and Garden

Renophobia and reality

Through a combination of tracking the property sales in my area and chatting to local realtors, it’s become clear that homeowners are not looking to buy do-ups right now.

In fact, one agent said to me that naive buyers who thought a renovation might cost $100k a year ago are assuming it costs $500k today thanks to what they’re seeing in the news about the construction industry (hint: prices haven’t really increased five times).

Here are

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