Conservatory adding value

w00519772

How much value does a conservatory add to a property?

Say there are two properties that are identical and are both on sale for £170K, bu one has a conservatory (say the vendor spent 5K), then does this add 5K to the house price or more perhaps?

How much do conservatories usually cost?

pmlindyloo

I wouldn't have thought there were any hard and fast rules.

Adding a conservatory usually means less garden.

Although the houses may be identical in build it is often the 'extras' that make people pay more. eg up market kitchen/bathroom so you would have to look at the house as a whole to see whether you could up the price.

I_have_spoken

People are now a bit sniffy about 'cheap' conservatories with just polycarbonate roof rather than heat reflecting glass and all UPVC rather than double-skin brick dwarf walls.

Also peeps want a C/H radiator so they can extend the season and power sockets for beer cooler etc. and be in range of wi-fi to use tablets. Really more an orangery than a conservatory.

I'd say spend £ get a £ for run-of-the-mill jobs in UPVC. Careful siting help, usually SW is preferred so it's doesn't get silly hot and folks can use of an evening.

How much do conservatories usually cost?

£7k to £12k

ognum

w00519772 wrote: »

How much value does a conservatory add to a property?

Say there are two properties that are identical and are both on sale for £170K, bu one has a conservatory (say the vendor spent 5K), then does this add 5K to the house price or more perhaps?

How much do conservatories usually cost?

Clearly this is a personal opinion but for me the conservatory adds little if anything.

It depends on the type of house and the type of conservatory but if it's UPVC and stuck at the back of a modern semi then for me it adds no value.

If it's a Victorian house and has a beautiful hardwood conservatory then it would be worth something.

Conservatories are mostly too hot in summer and too cold in winter they take light from the other rooms of the house and frequently become a dumping ground for stuff.

I think I'm in the anti conservatory camp!!!!!

pmlindyloo

Phil Spencer has written a fairly good article about adding value to a house but in the end a house is what someone will pay for it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/buyingsellingandmoving/7906602/Phil-Spencers-top-20-ways-to-add-value-to-your-home.html

lee111s

Imo it would reduce the value as I'd have to pull it down. Spend the little bit extra and have a proper extension built which can be used year round and won't require doors in between to prevent it making your house freezing in the winter.

phill99

Many conservatories are put up on the cheap without any real understanding of how they function. Mist oeoplw effectively just have a greenhouse stuck onto their dining room. They don't pay for low e glass or solar blinds so they end up being far too hot in the summer. A customer of mine had one built only to come home after a holiday to find candle wax all over the place as they had melted.

Additionally, most people don't have the central heating extended into them or install underfloor heating, so in the winter they become too cold.

In my experience most end up as junk stores or somewhere to put the running machine that you had every intention of using after you put on 12 lbs over christmas in 1998 but is now a bery expensive clothes airer. And you still haven't lost that 12 lbs.

So realistically, they add nothing to the value if the house and can certainly be seen as a burden.

SailorSam

Ok a conservatory may give you a bit more space, but how often can you use it. To hot in Summer and to cold in Winter. I'd rather spend a bit more and have a proper extension.
Given the two houses were the same price i may well choose the one with the conservatory but wouldn't pay extra for it.

dgtazzman

I think it would depend on the quality of the conservatory and it will unlikely add the same amount of value to the property as would have been spent building it.

A glorified greenhouse dubbed into conservatory would subtract value for me. A well built, functional one that adds to the overall property might add value to it.

I would consider adding a conservatory myself, in fact, am considering doing so if/when we start a family, but I wouldn't be looking for a cheap solution. In our house we're buying, it would be an ideal solution to create a large kitchen/dining area and would free up the dining room to make it into a family or playroom. I would however be investing in one of such quality that it could be used every day of the year for this purpose.

It might add value to the property for somebody else, it might not, but it would add value to us as a family and that's what matters. In other words, it's all personal opinion.

dancelikeamonkey

The house I am living in now has a conservatory which was a selling point when I bought it, but I'll never buy one with a conservatory again no matter what the price.

Last year I spent hundreds on hiring a builder to identify and repair a leak letting water run down the walls. Since then water has found another point in on the other wall (think I found the source of that one myself though). Both times has meant redecorating.

It's a poly-carbonate roofed one so too noisy to sit in and relax on a summer evening when neighbours have music on in their gardens or cars turn in the cul-de-sac and too cold to use in the winter (I have a heater in there but it needs to be constantly when it's cold outside).

I can't replace the roof with a glass one because my neighbours would look right down into it and the cost of having decent blinds fitted is not inconsiderable.

So no, if you ask me it won't add thousands to the price, adding a conservatory would make me not even consider viewing it.

I_have_spoken

I :heart2: mine, even though it is a bit of cheapy with polycarbonate roof but it does have a radiator off the C/H and power sockets.

It faces south, but as it's Scotland it never gets too hot so I keep the exotic plants. The frosted film helps with the solar gain and stops me feeling I'm 'on show' without needing to faff with the blinds.

I'm sitting in it to make this post.