How Valuable Are Sunroom Additions For My Home?

January 30, 2010 by · 1 Comment
Filed under: Remodeling 

A sunroom addition is not only an extra room to use and enjoy but an investment as well. A sunroom can increase the market value of your home substantially, and also make it easier to sell if needed.

A sunroom addition increases the amount of what is called “livable space” in your home, which adds to the market value of your home. You must make sure that it is built as a four-season sunroom in order to take full advantage of this benefit. A sunroom that is not built to meet the requirements to keep it warm during the cooler months will not add as much value. The small extra cost of making it a room that can be used throughout the year is well worth the price when you consider how much it adds to the home.

You can contact a real estate agent or housing appraisal company in your area to get an estimate of the amount your house would be worth by adding a sunroom addition. they are specialists in the field and have sold or given estimates on many homes that have a sunroom. They can give you a quite reasonable quote based on your design ideas and other houses in the market that have recently sold with sunroom additions.

If you live in a community where the housing prices are on the rise, then you can factor in the sunroom as part of the rise for your home. Once you have determined how much monetary value the sunroom adds to your home, you can multiple that amount by the expected rise percentage of your property to find out how much your sunroom will be worth in ten or twenty years. You may be surprised at the total amount your room will be worth in the years to come.

A sunroom addition not only adds value to the property itself, but can be designed to your own specifications so that you can truly enjoy every minute you spend in it, so that it adds tremendous value to your quality of life as well.

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