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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on the value of the house. If it would sell for more than around $1 million, and has been renovated recently, high end appliances are expected and will help resale (although you may not be able to document a direct increase in your sale price).  Less than a million, I think nice (but not necessarily subzero) is fine.  [/quote]

This.  High end appliances are expected in homes over 1 mil. Price points less than that buyers might feel like they are paying a premium for them and won't be worth the investment.[/quote]

Not true[/quote]

They are expected in McMansion neighborhoods like McLean. But not in $1m places in the city or Inside the beltway. We sold our DC home in one day $100k over asking at $1.5m. IKEA kitchen and Bosch and frigidaire appliances.

Whatever you do, don't buy high end appliances for your own use and functionality, because it's a well documented fact that most of the high end brands have terrible reliability issues (thinking subzero and Viking) or aren't particularly liked by their users (like my mom hates the wolf 48" gas range). [/quote]

No they are not. $1 m is nothing in McLean. I sold my $1.5m house in McLean and it had Kitchenaid built in fridge and big range, which was nicer than a lot of the other houses around the same value. [/quote]

+1. I think PP is thinking of the McLean real estate market about 15 years ago.[/quote]

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