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New homes typically have a higher sales price than comparable existing homes, and buyers are usually willing to spend more on a new home because of lower maintenance costs. Builders' warranties on new homes, when combined with a new roof, appliances, and major systems, usually make major repairs unnecessary and help to counter a slower initial rate of appreciation.

Census Bureau Housing Surveys suggests that operating costs are lowest for brand new homes and slightly higher for relatively new existing homes. Operating costs per square foot of living space are consistently higher for progressively older existing homes. Utility costs represent the largest factor in operating costs. Energy consumption per square foot depends on the size of the home, the insulation and quality of the windows, air leakage and the efficiency of the furnace.

New homes require fewer expenditures for routine maintenance. The cost of maintenance first increases with age, then declines, so you will generally spend less maintaining a home built before 1960 than for a home built between 1970 and 1975.

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Mary Lewis and Eddie Thompson
Mary Lewis Realty
1234 Takara Court
Town and Country, MO. 63131
314 409 2042
636 795 0395
Fax: 314 878 5547
Email: marylewis@NUMBER1EXPERT.com
We are about offering our affordable, personal service throughout the real estate transaction. We are focused on the one-to-one personal relationship with each client with whom we work. Feedback has shown us that clients prefer to work with a single person who has daily impact on the successful outcome and who can address specific situations in context as they develop. Mary Lewis is an experienced broker and entrepreneur as well as a native St. Louisan, mother of four grown sons , one of whom is a custom home builder in the Town& Country, Kirkwood area. She owned developed and sold her own manufacturing company in the Specialty Toy industry before plunging into the real estate world. As a native St. Louisan, it just "made sense" to continue to introduce St. Louis to relocated families from other states, as well as to provide new housing opportunities to local families. Whether the client is looking to relocate, build new or search for investment property, we have the necessary experience to provide success.

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