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Are you trying to decide the best return for your remodeling project for 2006? This wonderful time of big dreams and goal setting has put a handful of projects in my lap for the coming year. Reading this article from the National Association of Realtors is making me glad we are remodeling the bathroom and not the kitchen this year.

Kitchen and bathroom remodeling projects are returning more of a homeowner’s investment than ever before, according to the 2005 Cost vs. Value Report published by the National Association of Realtors in REALTOR® Magazine and by Hanley Wood LLC in Remodeling magazine.

Many homeowners who complete midrange bathroom remodels can expect to make money; the cost on a national average for this project is $10,499, and the return is $10,727, or 102.2 percent, compared with 87.5 percent in 2002. On average, major midrange kitchen remodels cost $43,862 and return $39,920, or 91 percent of the costs to remodel, up from 66 percent in 2002.
Nationally, homeowners who add an attic bedroom spend an average of $39,188, and on resale, they recoup 93.5 percent of the cost. Master suites, however, do not fare as well; an upscale addition, which costs $137,891 on average, returns only $110,512 on resale, or approximately 80.1 percent of the remodeling expense.Realtor.Org.

Hat Tip Hot Property at Business Week.

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