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With the housing market booming, some homeowners
may be hoping that by doing a few long-delayed repairs they

can convert their “handyman's special” into a “luxury dream
home” that can be sold for a bundle.

But real estate agents are warning these prospective
renovators that their repairs may not add extra dollars to
the selling price.

One person's idea of exquisite broadloom might be an
ugly rug to someone else. Another might view a
super-trendy sauna in the basement as a waste of good rec
room space. -

Tim Post, manager of Terry Martel Real Estate Ltd. in
Toronto, says h 1 it must
decide whether they want to change their. homes. to suit
their own lifestyles, or to increase the salability of the house.

“In some cases the homeowner can recover the money
(for a renovation) provided he doesn’t get greedy,” says
Post, referring to elaborate renovations made in the hope of
getting a big resale price. :

SKIP POOL

Royal LePage, Canada's largest real estate firm, offers
this advice:

“You should not expect to recover the cost of pricey
extras — pools, saunas, greenhouses, for example — in the
short term.

“You will be lucky to find a buyer who exactly shares
your enthusiasms, and is willing to pay anything like the
as-new cost.

“If you expect to be selling your house within a few
years, keep it in good condition, but think carefully before
making major improvements.”

So what are the improvements in which the homeowner

might be expected to recover his costs and improve the -

resale value of the home? 2

Bathrooms and kitchens are the main rooms to worry
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from 25,208,900 a year earlier

about. of a fully ‘ipp
could improve the resale price of a house by 15 per cent.

Likewise, central air ii and

ing the annual growth
rate of recent years of about
one per cent.

garages also improve the resale price of a home. If your.
home is in the suburbs, a recreation room is an added extra.

The things that might make your house more enjoyable,

but won't necessarily add to its resale value, are the frills.

loom, especially in offbeat colors, fences, saunas

and sunporches all fall into this category, he said. Backyard

pools, once a sign of status, are also questionable these days

because people have concerns over safety or wasted
backyard space.

Royal LePage offers similar advice. It says modern
kitchens will add to the appeal of a house, but a stunning
designer layout won't necessarily sell.

Bathrooms should be kept up-to-date, modern and easy
to clean. “You probably will not recover the cost of a lavish
marble layout with sunken bath.”

AVOID GLITZ

Post said he's also finding sandblasted brick homes hard
to sell because of concern that the blasting may have
removed the protective glazing on the brick, fostering
deterioration.

And it usually helps to spruce up the outside with a new
coat of paint, he said.

In short, the house should look nice “but there should be
a minimum amount of glitz.”

The Toronto Home Builders Association also offers
some points to consider about renovating:

e Renovating on a large scale may cause your home's
tax assessment to rise substantially.

e Over-investing in comparison with the other houses in
the area should be avoided. .

e Financing the renovation may be cheapest through a
first or second mortgage — available through most major
banking institutions — desi; i for i

show the population in all the
provinces and territories was
up over the 12-month period.
The population for each of
the provinces and territories
as of Oct. 1, with the pop-
ulation a year earlier in
brackets, was:
Newfoundland 581,100
(579,200); Prince Edward Is-
land 127,700 (126,300); Nova
Scotia 883,400 (876,300); New

Manitoba 1,072,400
(1,062,000); Saskatchewan
1,020,100 (1,013,600); Alberta
2,357,600 (2,336,600); British
Columbia 2,900,400
(2,877,200); Yukon. 22,80C
(22,700); Northwest Territor-
ies 61,200 (50,100).

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tank he says has ties to or-
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It is “an outrage” that the
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tax number -allowing con-

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the federal government
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