Does adding AC to home increase home value? how much?
Bought a home in the Bay Area. It comes with central air heating, but no AC. I’m considering adding AC unit to home. Since the ducts are already in place the cost should be only equipments + installation. Will the addition of AC increase my home value?
The right question is: will it increase home value enough to offset the cost? There’s not enough info provided to answer that.
what kind of info are u looking for?
You’ll likely need a solid proposal from an HVAC firm. The size of your house. The tonnage of the HVAC. What wiring needs to be run. Do you have enough room in your box. Does your plenum need replaced. Appropriate drainage. Local permitting laws... Get a proper proposal to see what this would cost you. Ducts are just the beginning.
1 to 2k
Congrats for your new home. Increase in value is important only when you are selling your home . These are unrealized gain or loss when you stay in the home. You bought a house to live and don’t worry about unrealized gain or loss. Enjoy your stay at home with your family.
It looks great on a listing too.
I can't even fathom a house without AC.
I live in DFW, so me, too, neither. It's literally 100 degrees today.
Older homes don’t have them, especially in areas where you only get 100 degree weather for 1 or 2 days a year.
Does anyone else in the bay area give a shit about A/C? I think this is a question of how the market will handle the fact that your house has A/C versus the way it would handle your house without A/C. Would it be a more attractive listing if it had A/C? The appraised dollar value would be higher, sure, but the increase wouldn't directly correlate to the A/C system cost. However, if your house has A/C, it might get more bids and a bit of a bidding war might break out. This is all speculation--I live in Texas, where A/C is everything.
Depends on where in the Bay Area. In Danville or San Jose then yes. In SF, Oakland, Berkeley, less so. I’ve lived in Texas before, that would be a fuck yeah.
Does anyone else in the bay area give a shit about A/C? I think this is a question of how the market will handle the fact that your house has A/C versus the way it would handle your house without A/C. Would it be a more attractive listing if it had A/C? The appraised dollar value would be higher, sure, but the increase wouldn't directly correlate to the A/C system cost. However, if your house has A/C, it might get more bids and a bit of a bidding war might break out. This is all speculation--I live in Texas, where A/C is everything.
WA is the new CA, CA is the new TX. We will all die from climate change soon anyway.
They keep saying that, and yet...nobody has been able to reliably predict when. Don't get me wrong, I accept climate change as a real concern, but I'm not ready to go all doom-and-gloom and say we're all about to die. Plus, I find it interesting that progress has been made in the mitigation of carbon liability, and yet...the prognosis continues to get worse and worse. And if we are fucked, *shrug* goes the nihilistic shoulder...
You know what... even if climate change is not a thing it would not hurt to have a moonshot effort and a global alignment to change the way the produce and consume energy. If only we could be up to accept a real challenge. I guess this will happen too late. My point is: even if CC is a “hoax” we - as a human specie - are in dire need of a global moonshot.
I recently ditched the idea of bidding on a property because the neighbors didn't have proper a/c . Please see to it that you buy them some too, in case you want to appraise higher
Depends on locale, but in Seattle AC definitely adds value at or beyond cost of installation if central air/ductwork already in place