How To Improve The Value Of Your House

If you are looking to increase the value of your home, replacing old carpets or tile with a beautifully laid bamboo floor will certainly help. And if your home isn’t up for resell and you just want to have beautiful flooring, using bamboo is an elegant and affordable way to go.

Bamboo flooring may only be a little over ten years old, but its beauty and environmental factors have spoken for itself. And, floor experts have discovered that bamboo is actually harder than hardwoods such as Maple and Oak. Not only that, bamboo is extremely eco-friendly, and stands up the look, feel, sound, and warmth of its hardwood peers.

Hard Hit Housing Markets Showing Improvement

The real estate market has been falling for a few years now. In the last year, the best housing markets were actually flat, where prices of homes didn’t either increase or decrease and home sales stayed pretty steady with previous year’s sales. This means that the rest of the market was crashing and burning. Many communities around the country had homes foreclosed on because of bad financial practices by mortgage lenders, and possibly some real estate brokers.

Therefore, it’s with glee that the Orlando Regional Realtor Association released figures showing that they had sold 38% more homes in May than they had in April, and 44% more than the same month the previous year. They did temper the figure by mentioning that most were bank owned or distressed sales, and that home prices overall still dropped by 38.5%, but at least something is improving. That, plus more than double the number of homes sold are waiting to be closed, which they believe indicates an improving market.