a good fit for you?
“Lifestyle Property” is a phrase that you’ve perhaps heard lately. But what does it really mean?
A lifestyle property is a home that has one or more unique features that improve quality of life for its residents.
Certain physical spaces
offer more moments of serenity and joy”
A misconception about lifestyle properties is that they are all multi-million dollar estates. While this is often the case, it is not always so.
The high-concept attributes that a home possesses are what make it a lifestyle property. These are not always expensive.
A small cottage in a living-foods commune would be a lifestyle property, even if it is priced at only $90,000. It’s in a community where the residents share one meal a day and everyone adheres to a raw diet. That makes it a lifestyle property. To those who choose to live there, it offers a higher quality of daily living.
Another example of an affordable lifestyle property would be a studio condo in a historic downtown district. Replete with charming mom-and-pop shops, a studio near a stroll-able main street can be highly desirable. The fact that is has so many unusual amenities that would impact and improve daily life makes it a lifestyle property.
In this short video, David Findley explains:
Owning Property in a Walkable Community
“Urban Pedestrianism” is the latest high-concept in healthy living. Homes that live next to the Lake Hollywood Reservoir in Los Angeles are increasingly considered lifestyle properties. In the Land Of The Car, being in such close proximity to a popular walking and running spot is considered highly desirable.
Imagine waking up early each morning and stepping into your “backyard” and hopping into your rowboat for a quick workout on the sea water? That’s exactly what it’s like to live in the Venice Canals in California. Now that’s living!
Of course, many lifestyle properties are estates, that have their own unique feature, such as an accompanying vineyard, or an ocean for a front yard, or a vast organic hobby farm, or stables and trails for horses, or a designated heli-pad for the “chopper.”
As psychic-space becomes more crowded in the Age of the iPhone , it may be the physical spaces that offer access to more moments of serenity or joy. These are becoming the new ideal in real estate.
~ What do you think makes a home a Lifestyle Property?
~ What about the home that you live in now do you think is unique?
~ What unusual attribute do you hope to have in your next home?
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Having grown up on a farm, I fantasize about living in a large open space in the heart of a small and friendly town, where there is little need to drive. For me, the community would need to have a good supply of organic foods and good air quality.
Every human being is unique! If you take a focused, yet relaxed, look at how you actually want to live, and imagine what lifestyle actually fits who you really are as a person, you might be surprised at what you realize!
It takes thoughtful consideration, planning and good advice to find a community and property to meet your needs and enrich your daily experience. It’s up to the individual, the couple, and the family to define what “lifestyle property” means to them!