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All things being equal, is there a way to judge how much more would a house sell for with and without central air? Where I live in New England, you need AC may be 2 months, 3 max.
Where I live in New England, you need AC may be 2 months, 3 max.
Where I live it's required by code now.
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...how much more would a house sell for with and without central air?
A house that has NEVER had central air vs one of similar vintage and comparable condition
otherwise that has had a professional HVAC installation done recently?
They could probably recover about half of the cost to do that work in the sale price.
They could probably recover about half of the cost to do that work in the sale price.
In, New England - I agree. We didn't install it in NY when we renovated our house - some said huge mistake, but most houses of the same age vintage don't have it. Like New England, only needed a couple months of the year and certainly not every day.
we are getting some quotes for both replacing the boiler (hot water heat) and getting central air installed. we currently have portable window units for the bedrooms.
one opinion we got was to install CA only on the second floor simply because it is simpler and still one of the rooms, a study that sits in a complicated way over the garage, cannot be accessed for duct work. so would require a room AC.
the first floor would require duct work through closets, and again the family room cannot be accessed due to cathedral ceiling. we currently have a built in room ac in the FR that actually cools the entire downstairs because of the open floor plan. it is noisy but a new one would be quieter.
it is uncomfortable a for a few weeks, we go away for a few weeks, and it works for us.
lack of CA didn't seem to bother the 2 families that made acceptable offers within a week of our putting it on the market for a month. we pulled it off the market because we decided not to sell. now that we are planning to replace the boiler we are looking at CA and i am just wondering how much more attractive, in $$s, would the pain of all the HAVAC work would be if decide to sell sometime in the future. CA is certainly nicer than window units but it will be a pain, and costly, to do it now.
The number of ready, willing and able buyers who will seriously consider a house without central air does not bode well for getting sold, in most Midwest and NE areas.
Even folk who do not like AC become concerned about resale.
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