Does a Street Name Make A Big Difference In Selling a Home?
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Does a street name make a big difference in selling a home? Anecdotally it probably does, but in reality I doubt this is a big deal breaker in the market. This being said, I personally have bought a home with one of the worst names I have heard.
We bought our first home on Saltlick Trace. A nice 2 story colonial in a subdivision that goes by the name of Fetlock Meadows that prided itself on equestrian themed names. Now, if I was a developer, I doubt Saltlick Trace would be the name that I would race to name a street, but there was the house we fell in love with. Fortunately the home was on a corner and the other street name was Bay Point.
With a little cajoling (begging), a few trips to the post office, and moving our mailbox we officially got the address changed to Bay Point and that could not have hurt the resale value of the home and we enjoyed it for many years. But the name Saltlick Trace always annoyed me for some reason.
So here is my Sunday morning question, what is the worst street name you have run across?
There’s plenty of water-cooler discussion over whether someone would buy or live on a street with a particularly obnoxious name. On the flip side, people have a tendency to praise street names that sound pleasant. There may be a gut tug one way or the other when looking at a home on Diablo Way, Feral Avenue or Dawn Meadow or Painted Sky streets. But it doesn’t seem that it often, if ever, becomes a deal-breaker.
“If any street names ever impacted a client’s decision to purchase, I can’t think of one instance other than a laugh here or there about a name or two,” said Glen Scalise with Century 21 Rolling Oaks. Joe Virnig of Remax Gold Coast Realty wondered aloud if there were any Democrats living on Reagan Street. via Ventura County Star
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Comment by Sean Harrington on 12 August 2007:
I lived on Salsipuedes in Carmel Valley, (the one next to Carmel By The Sea. Its name is translated from the Spanish language as “get out if you can” or alternatively “leave if you can”.
Comment by Fred on 13 August 2007:
Had a home on a street named Edelweiss Drive; may not sound too bad but, believe me, every time someone asked for your address and needed to write it wown, the standard question was, “How do you spell that?” I decided then that any home I owned in the future would have a common name; one that any normal person could easily spell. So, for me, a street name definitely determines on whether I would buy it or not.
Comment by Marianne Yates on 14 August 2007:
Shades of Death Road:
i grew up near this road in Great Meadows NJ. Of course it had a ghost story to go with it. But would you want to buy a house on this road??
it’s true: http://tinyurl.com/2cudgd
Comment by Tripp Fenderson on 10 September 2007:
Moving to Virginia Beach, VA? You’ll definitely want to check out Pleasure House Road.
In Hanover County, just north of Richmond, VA, you can live on Bear Slash Trail, Slash Court or Pine Slash Road (they love their slashes up there).
And if that’s not good enough, just west of Ashland, VA is a road called Old Bumpass Farm Lane.