Improving your house to make more money

[Logosgil]

A gararge normally add about 4 k with a tidy garden,first impressions when entering,

What the ceiling value of surrounding properties,

[Scotty]

Prices tend only to go up if you are physically adding living space! Cosmetics make such an insignificant difference you will never get that back in the sale. It's similar to cars. Put upgraded alloys, trade in will not reflect that!

[jmagee]

Very true. It just helps it sell easier. Hence why I'm going to try to avoid buying a new car in future.. Get a 12 month old one with all the options instead.



Same applies for the house. It's all about space now

[Scotty]

We've been looking at New build houses over past two weeks. We're in a 4 bed detached with garage just now and just fancy a new house....been in ours 10years from new. However, to get the same as we are in we need to find a 50k deposit to have the same mortgage. From our house sale we would have around 40k equity. However, we still haven't tiled, carpeted, bought appliances, done the back garden, paid stamp duty, legal fees and removal costs.

So guess what? We're staying put! We could go a little smaller but again all the above factors come into it although the deposit is smaller!