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Bathroom Linen

Closets Are

Most Wanted

Bathroom Feature

A majority of home buyers – 78 percent — expressed that a ‘linen closet in the master bathroom’ is a desirable
(52 percent) or an essential/must have bathroom feature (26 percent), putting it in first place in the most wanted
bathroom features list (Figure 1).
This data comes from NAHB’s recently
released report, What Home Buyers
Really Want, 2019 Edition. The report is
based on a survey asking recent and
prospective home buyers (people who
bought homes in the previous three
years or are planning to do so in the
next three years) about the features
they want in a home or community.
One question asks home buyers to
rate a comprehensive list of features
using a four-tier scale of do not want,
indifferent, desirable, and essential/
must have. Figure 1 shows the top ten
bathroom features with the highest
share combination of desirable (would
be seriously influenced to buy home
if included) and essential/must have
(unlikely to buy a home without it).

Two other features were rated as essential/must have or desirable by at least 70 percent of home buyers: ‘both
shower stall & tub in master bath’ (73 percent); and a ‘double vanity’ (71 percent). It is important to note that these
two features have the highest shares of home buyers rating them as essential/must haves (32 percent each),
more than any other bathroom feature listed in the survey.
Another four features were rated essential/must have or desirable by at least 60 percent of home buyers:
‘private toilet compartment in master bath’ (65 percent), ‘white toilet, tub, & sink’ (63 percent), ‘ceramic tile walls’
(62 percent), and a ‘granite vanity’ (61 percent). Rounding out the top ten are the following features: 57 percent of
home buyers rated ‘multiple shower heads in master bath’ an essential/must have or desirable feature, followed
by a ‘body spray panel in master bath’ (56 percent) and ‘whirlpool tub in master bath’ (54 percent).
NAHB MAR 2019

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