Smart Home Features That Have Caught On

The 2015 Houzz and Home survey found that 25 percent of homeowners doing renovations deemed smart technology very important to extremely important, and 23 percent installed home automation systems as part of a 2014 renovation. However, the survery found that 30 percent of homeowners considered smart home renovations as not at all important.

When choosing smart features homeowners tend to gravitate toward products that are simple to use and less expensive, making remote control of temperature and lighting popular choices. "They don't value what they don't understand," says Danny Hertzberg, a sales associate with The Jills Team at Coldwell Banker in Miami Beach, Florida.

Read more: http://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/articles/6-smart-home-features-that-have-caught-on-and-a-few-that-will-soon/

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