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Laundry Rooms

Top the List of

Most Wanted

Home Features

Nearly all home buyers – 91 percent – want a laundry
room included in their home, more than any other home
or community feature, according to NAHB’s report What
Home Buyers Really Want (2019 Edition). The report is based on a national survey that asks 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 and a community.
One question in the survey asks them to rank features using a four-tier scale of essential/must have, desirable,
indifferent, and do not want. Figure 1 shows the top ten features with the highest combination of essential/must have
(unlikely to buy a home without it) and desirable (would be seriously influenced to buy home if included). Not only
does a laundry room top this list,
but when ranking features solely
by the essential/must have shares,
a laundry room tops the list again
with 54 percent of home buyers.

After a laundry room, the most
wanted feature is ENERGY STAR
windows, with 89 percent of home
buyers rating it as essential/must
have or desirable. It is important to
note that two other ENERGY STAR-
related features make the top ten list:
ENERGY STAR appliances was rated
essential/must have or desirable by
86 percent of home buyers and an
ENERGY STAR rating for the whole
home was rated essential/must have
or desirable by 81 percent. The fact
that these features made the top ten

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