The house holds value if of quality

It was the refuge where to land after long days spent at work or school, now our house has been transformed into a castle where you can live all day because of the health emergency for the coronavirus. The constraint between home walls imposed to reduce contagions is close to most, who in this complicated situation of their home have discovered strengths but above all defects. A game of pros and cons that questioned choices made at the time of purchase and renovation and paved the way for the desire for new solutions. «The house is no longer just the place where you eat and sleep - says Mario Breglia, president of Scenari Immobiliari -, but it becomes a multi-function object. Today we work, study, spend all our free time. It is the first time that 30 million households have simultaneously become aware of the condition of their home. There are those who used it for a limited time, those who abandoned it on the weekend. Now everyone has had to deal with their own home in a reality of forced and continuous coexistence with the other members of the family ". Looking at Istat data, one third of Italian houses have neither terrace nor balcony, 60% have one bathroom, only 8% of the Italian housing stock was built in this century. On an average size level, a house is 68 square meters in the city and 92 square meters in the rest of the country. The available space is therefore the first element to be evaluated, but necessarily connected to the external space (of which those who are now segregated in houses without even a balcony miss), the light and the soundproofing of the walls. "When a house is lived in the daytime, for many consecutive hours, defects that were previously considered to be partial - Breglia continues - are discovered, such as noisy neighbors, streets with too much traffic, lack of natural light and systems that do not keep a lot of consumption together".Not only. Today the house has been revised, in a hurry, to be equipped for the smart working functions to which we are all forced, together with the remote study for the children. But the space is not always adequate. According to experts, most will realize the defects of their home and may decide, liquidity permitting, to start looking for other solutions. - Il sole24 ore -