Loft Conversion

Doozergirl

rob7475 said:

Doozergirl said:

rob7475 said:

Loft conversions rarely lead to a profit when you come to sell the house. If you want a loft conversion to improve the house for yourself, that's great. If you're doing it to make money, I wouldn't bother.
It's ok adding an an extra two bedrooms but if the ground floor is out of proportion, you end up with a top heavy house with lots of bedrooms but no real 'living' space for the occupants.

This is a bungalow.  It's hardly going to be top heavy.  

I didn't mean top heavy from a construction point of view - I should have explained it better 

What I mean is, if you turn a 2 bed bungalow into a 4 bed, you run the risk of the living areas (kitchen, dning, living room) not being big enough to cope with the extra occupants the extra bedrooms create.

It all depends on the living space you currently have I suppose. 

I know what you mean, but a bungalow has a lot of flexibility built in to it.  Upstairs is smaller, the downstairs rooms can be whatever you like - bedrooms or reception rooms.  A room with nothing in it has no purpose until you name it.  

Doozergirl

SamCo said:

akira181 said:

does it really matter what value it will add to the property?

Yes otherwise I would not be asking. I want to sell it after renovation

It's always a pertinent question, especially on MSE.  

If the question is 'would I make enough on this as a project to flip' then the answer would be no.  

If you were living in it and wanted the extra space but wanted to sell it in the future, I don't think you'd see a loss, but it's not a money spinner.