FILE - Black front door. (BEHR® Paint via Zillow)Looking to sell your house? Better get a bucket of paint because apparently the color of your front door could make or break a sale, according to data collected by Zillow.
It’s kind of similar to the theory that you eat with your eyes, well according to Zillow, home buyers basically do the same thing and it all starts with the front door. "Actual and prospective buyers surveyed valued some homes more than others.
The only deciding factor? The color of the front door," Zillow said. The real estate company gave potential homebuyers an image of a front door painted one of 11 different colors.
Participants would then rank the door color and considered the following: likelihood of buying and the price they believed it was worth.