Guide to How to Add Value to Your Home o selling property .

When thinking about how to increase home value, root your expectations in reality. Updates rarely recoup 100% of their cost, but they can make your family more comfortable and even help your home sell faster.

If you can’t pay for home improvements in cash, be sure to choose the right method of financing for you.

• Paint exterior woodwork

• Repair windows and doors as well as old rainwater goods

• Update old-fashioned sanitaryware

• Paint old kitchen units and consider a new worktop

• Tidy and organise the garden space.

• Repair, paint or re-carpet stairs and broken balustrades.

• Board or convert the loft into useable space.

• Add new light fittings.

• Add roof lights, light pipes or a roof lantern to draw in extra natural light.

• Increase the connection to outside spaces through the introduction of folding or sliding doors.

• Re-grout tiles.

• Add storage.

• Change the front door.

• Repaint rooms.

• Replace old flooring, such as threadbare carpets or chipped tiles.

• Tackle damp issues.