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Your loft could add £18k value to your home – if used right

Your loft could add £18k value to your home – if used right

Published by Sam Flores

Estate agents claim most homes are not using the space to its full potential (Image: Getty) A usable loft can add nearly £18,000 to the value of a family home and make it easier to sell, according to estate agents. Research involving 500 property brokers found a boarded and easily accessible roof space adds £17,677 to a four-bedroom property, £13,821 to a three-bed, and £9,867 to a two-bed. With the property market firmly in buyers’ hands, sellers are under pressure to make their homes stand out with affordable ways to increase appeal and value. Nearly nine in 10 (88%) agents confirmed that the homeowners they represent are increasingly looking for cost-effective ways to add value without the expense of an extension or a full renovation. Experts said the answer could be right above their heads, providing a significant return on an investment for as little as £260, achieved through raised loft boarding and insulation work. It comes after research commissioned by LoftZone found that properly fixing up a loft was named the most overlooked method …

See Robert Frank and June Leaf’s New York Loft for Sale for .5 M.

See Robert Frank and June Leaf’s New York Loft for Sale for $6.5 M.

Published by Jenni Sidey

The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million. That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made their home/studio at 7 Bleecker Street, near the Bowery, a sort of meeting place for New York’s finest creatives of all kinds. As noted by Curbed, “Unlike other artists who showed at MoMA and sold at auction for hundreds of thousands, Frank made himself easy to find—setting out a folding chair onto the sidewalk, often alongside a second seat for his wife, the sculptor June Leaf.” Frank died in 2019, after a long life devoted to photography (most notably in his epochal 1959 photo book The Americans) and filmmaking (most notoriously in his never-officially-released 1972 Rolling Stones documentary Cocksucker Blues). Leaf passed away in 2024, a year before a retrospective at the NYU’s Grey Art Museum paid tribute to her decades of work. …