Luxury Buyers Have High Expectations

If you are selling a luxury home, it needs to have frameless glass shower doors. It’s as simple as that. People paying millions for a new home aren’t going to buy a home with a bathtub and shower curtain configuration. It’s simply a dealbreaker in 2023.

The reason why is that people in the market for luxury homes have very high expectations about what they are getting for their money. So when they see an old-fashioned shower/tub in the home’s bathroom, it instantly drives down the price they are willing to pay by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Old Is Bad

Old-fashioned shower/tub combos are bad because they date the house. Builders started including them in new construction during the baby boom to accommodate the sudden increase in the number of children.

But home trends changed about 50 years ago. Tubs were out. Frameless glass shower doors were in. And outdated homes with old-school bathrooms were simply not worth as much as the same home with a more modern bathroom.

Invest in Your Home

Fortunately, the solution is very simple: If you are selling your home and it has a shower/tub combo, simply replace it with frameless glass shower doors. The money you invest in the upgrade can be compensated by the higher price you can ask for your home.

In fact, if you have a prestigious home that you intend to put up for sale, you literally can’t afford not to replace your current configuration with frameless glass shower doors. For one thing, your realtor likely will insist on it. For another, prospective buyers probably won’t even look at it until you do — let alone make an offer.

The choice is yours: Spend a little and make more. Or put a home with an outdated bathroom up for sale and get less. The choice is obvious.