A storm shelter in Oklahoma. A place to park your RV in Idaho. A wet bar in Kansas. A mountain view in Colorado. These are just some of the most sought after home features by state, based on Realtor.com home listings.
Diversity is one of the United States’ greatest assets – and that’s true even in home design! Especially in home design, in fact. From coast to coast, the way we like to live varies enormously. Sitting in a covered patio sipping cocktails after a refreshing dip in the pool, Texans may wonder what kind of house their Delaware compatriots live in. Are they chilling in their master rooms? Cowering in their storm shelters? Swinging on their gazebos?
Well, wonder no longer, friends, because we’ve pinpointed the distinctive housing features of each state.
Our data team took a deep dive into our 1.5 million active listings of single-family homes for sale and parsed out over 200 individual features from their listing descriptions. From there, we finalized the top five features for each state and picked the one with real local flavor.
