It’s a lot cheaper to find a used condo that has passed numerous hands over the years.
New construction in my town is sometimes twice as expensive as aged homes built before the 1969s.
If you have any skills with repairs or remodelling, you can save a lot of currency in the long run. But a lot of people buy these aged properties and expect to transfer in without spending any additional currency to make upgrades. Often the roof needs to be updated, plumbing or electrical repairs need to be made, and currency is spent on a new heating and cooling system. Periodically you’ll end up with a condo that has windows that should have been updated decades ago. A lot of the older homes in my state utilize crank windows. They open and close with a crank lever like the a singles that you see on cars made before the mid to late 1990s. Even if they’re simple to use, they’re seriously leaky with indoor air. When I owned a condo with them, my heating and cooling serviceman urged me to update them. He promised that my energy costs would drop so significantly that it would spend my money for the windows in just a few years. I didn’t believe the Heating and Air Conditioning tech at the time, however I’m glad that I went ahead and made the change regardless. He was right, the new double-pane storm windows are so enjoyable at retaining indoor temperatures that my cooling system is running less frequently and for shorter cycles each time. This translates into saved currency and a longer lasting cooling system.