{"id":16252,"date":"2018-05-02T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2023-10-10T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T10:03:38","slug":"top-home-improvements-that-really-add-value-to-your-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/05\/02\/top-home-improvements-that-really-add-value-to-your-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Top home improvements that really add value to your property"},"content":{"rendered":"
While many homeowners choose to up sticks and move when they want to upgrade or upsize the property they live in, huge numbers are choosing instead to renovate their existing homes – but upgrades can be costly and not all will add value to your property.<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the past five years, homeowners across the UK have invested \u00a341bn on home improvements<\/a>, according to NAEA Propertymark, with 73% of all property owners saying they had carried out some form of renovation.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in the buy-to-let market<\/a>, there has been an increase in the number of landlords remortgaging in order to carry out improvements on their properties. A study from Countrywide found that 9,523 landlords<\/a> who remortgaged had renovated their rentals, which is triple the number that did so in 2016.<\/p>\n What this means is that many people are deeming it better value for money to improve than move<\/a>, but there are pitfalls to be aware of, and it is vital to know just how much your renovations will add to the value of your property<\/a> to decide if they are worth it.<\/p>\n Canopies UK<\/a> has gathered data on the average impact certain upgrades have on home values<\/a>, using data from sources including Nationwide and property expert Phil Spencer, and has found that one of the best ways a property can be improved to push up its value is through increasing floor space<\/a>. Nationwide figures suggest that an increase of 10% in floor space can push up the value of a home by an average of 5%.<\/p>\n While many homeowners choose to up sticks and move when they want to upgrade or upsize the property they live in, huge numbers are choosing instead to renovate their existing homes – but upgrades can be costly and not all will add value to your property. Over the past five years, homeowners across the UK… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":16275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[341,45],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097437,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions\/6097437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The best ways\u00a0homeowners and landlords can add value<\/h4>\n
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