Posted: Monday Jun 20, 03:58 PDT
What Makes a Good Neighborhood?
Before you decide to buy...
You may feel that you know a good neighborhood when you see one, but there is more to judging a neighborhood than curb appeal or stellar school scores. Dig beneath the statistics and your emotions to get the complete picture.
Unless you're buying a custom home on a rural lot, you're not just buying a house but the neighborhood that surrounds it. In many respects, the identity of a neighborhood is as important to the value of a property as individual properties themselves. In a planned community, strictly controlled architecture governs a carefully crafted identity block after block. In a rural town, tree-lined streets and an old-fashioned town square preserves a disappearing way of life. In a large city, an older neighborhood's ethnic history has shaped its character and is driving its rejuvenation.
It's important to know where a neighborhood has been --and where it is going--before you decide to buy there.
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