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Home Offices a Top Value-adding Selling Point

Home Offices a Top Value-adding Selling Point

Date: 2016-07-29
With fuel prices continually fluctuating, food prices on the rise and interest rates putting consumers under pressure,South Africanshave started exploring alternative means to reduce their expenses and free up expendable income. Hence the home office.

Business professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers and many others are opting for home offices, and besides the obvious advantages these, additions also add great value to your property.

Technological advancements have made the home office more viable in recent years and demand for these spaces is high. We are seeing increasingly more queries from buyers asking about homes equipped with office potential.

With increased value as an incentive, homeowners are not only including the home office into their renovation plans for when they aim to sell, but are choosing this route for their own purposes in the meantime too.

There are quite a few possibilities being explored in the current market, ranging from spare bedrooms being converted into tech hubs and office centric decor, to garages being renovated to include desks, computers and a professional entrance.

Another interesting development is the transformation of Wendy houses and garden sheds into quaint office marvels.

The shift to home offices in many respects is due to modern working demands.

People are spending a lot of time away from home as work schedules are jam-packed, and the home office allows for a balance to be brought to the professional and personal life juggling act.

International trends suggest that the home office is so popular that in 2014 in the UK almost 14% of the workforce was home based, the highest figure since the inception of the records database.

As internet speeds increase and connectability in South Africa becomes cheaper and more accessible, people are going to gravitate towards being home based.

"Homeowners should be considering the possibilities this might present."