Despite tougher times in the real estate market these days, most homeowners feel strongly that their home was worth more than they paid for it – and they are spending on improvements. The most common improvement, 2/3 of respondants, was to kitchens, which is not all that surprising. A large portion of respondants also said that if by chance someone gave theim their dream price for their home, more of them would downsize rather than move to a bigger home.