My husband and I are a bit keen on buying a real renovation project and fixing it up just the way we want it.
I have found this house that to say the least needs some love. But how much do you think it would cost to renovate this property?
https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-7rum-rydsgard-skurups-kommun-vastra-storgatan-31-21617704
Assume that you have to do the facade, roof - the whole shebang.
Regards
M
I have found this house that to say the least needs some love. But how much do you think it would cost to renovate this property?
https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-7rum-rydsgard-skurups-kommun-vastra-storgatan-31-21617704
Assume that you have to do the facade, roof - the whole shebang.
Regards
M
It depends a lot on two factors:
-What can you do yourself? Own work is free from income tax, VAT, employer contributions, and overhead costs.
-What standard do you want? If everything needs to be like new, renovations are often more expensive than new construction, but if you're satisfied with a little less, you can get away quite cheaply.
I think the roof looks fairly new. Why replace a roof that doesn't leak?
-What can you do yourself? Own work is free from income tax, VAT, employer contributions, and overhead costs.
-What standard do you want? If everything needs to be like new, renovations are often more expensive than new construction, but if you're satisfied with a little less, you can get away quite cheaply.
I think the roof looks fairly new. Why replace a roof that doesn't leak?
We would do a lot ourselves, but electrical, plumbing, facade, and possibly roof work we would probably outsource.
Best regards,
M
Best regards,
M
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Hi
The house you linked to looks like it has been a good home, and someone has already started a renovation but given up.
Try to find out why the current or previous owners stopped the renovation. Was something discovered that made everything twice as expensive?
Regarding the cost, it depends on many things as heimlaga mentions.
If you do everything you can yourself and hire craftsmen where needed, expect it to take about a year and cost perhaps a few million. There have been some segments on SVT’s Husdrömmar where it has taken 3-5 years before the renovation was completed.
It seems possible to live in the house, so renovating one part at a time is surely viable. But expect a few years of work if you are working professionally at the same time. An alternative is to stop working professionally and instead renovate the house full-time for a year.
The house you linked to looks like it has been a good home, and someone has already started a renovation but given up.
Try to find out why the current or previous owners stopped the renovation. Was something discovered that made everything twice as expensive?
Regarding the cost, it depends on many things as heimlaga mentions.
If you do everything you can yourself and hire craftsmen where needed, expect it to take about a year and cost perhaps a few million. There have been some segments on SVT’s Husdrömmar where it has taken 3-5 years before the renovation was completed.
It seems possible to live in the house, so renovating one part at a time is surely viable. But expect a few years of work if you are working professionally at the same time. An alternative is to stop working professionally and instead renovate the house full-time for a year.
Thank you for all the great answers!
Lovely house!
I would estimate at least 3 million if you subcontract it out, but without doing anything extravagant and assuming the structure, roof, floors, chimney, etc., are decent.
Internally, about 10,000 SEK/m2 of building area, and it seems to be just under 200 m2.
Externally, about 1 million SEK, where the expensive parts are the roof, plaster facade, and window renovation.
Then, for example, an additional 250,000 SEK for a heat pump, a couple of 100,000 SEK for the kitchen and bathroom each, etc.
I renovated a house from 1914, with a total area of over 200 m2, in just under 2 years with a carpenter, but I did over 1,000 hours myself, and the carpenter worked about 2,500-3,000 hours, but I had him as an employee (not a hired firm), which means salary + social charges, ending up at around 1.5 million SEK. However, I only repaired the roof (did not replace it) and did not replace the bathroom and kitchen, though the kitchen was renovated, and, for example, the window renovation alone was probably over 300 hours.
If you do it yourself, it's good not to underestimate how long things take. I think I ended up somewhere around 200 hours per room (walls, woodwork, floors, etc., plus electrical), but then a hallway or staircase becomes a room too. Just because they're smaller doesn't necessarily mean it goes faster.
Furthermore, my renovation was relatively ambitious; a lot of time went into scraping/sanding old moldings, casings, doors, fabricating new frames, embedding all electrical, and restoring, etc.
I would estimate at least 3 million if you subcontract it out, but without doing anything extravagant and assuming the structure, roof, floors, chimney, etc., are decent.
Internally, about 10,000 SEK/m2 of building area, and it seems to be just under 200 m2.
Externally, about 1 million SEK, where the expensive parts are the roof, plaster facade, and window renovation.
Then, for example, an additional 250,000 SEK for a heat pump, a couple of 100,000 SEK for the kitchen and bathroom each, etc.
I renovated a house from 1914, with a total area of over 200 m2, in just under 2 years with a carpenter, but I did over 1,000 hours myself, and the carpenter worked about 2,500-3,000 hours, but I had him as an employee (not a hired firm), which means salary + social charges, ending up at around 1.5 million SEK. However, I only repaired the roof (did not replace it) and did not replace the bathroom and kitchen, though the kitchen was renovated, and, for example, the window renovation alone was probably over 300 hours.
If you do it yourself, it's good not to underestimate how long things take. I think I ended up somewhere around 200 hours per room (walls, woodwork, floors, etc., plus electrical), but then a hallway or staircase becomes a room too. Just because they're smaller doesn't necessarily mean it goes faster.
Furthermore, my renovation was relatively ambitious; a lot of time went into scraping/sanding old moldings, casings, doors, fabricating new frames, embedding all electrical, and restoring, etc.
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Wow, what a beautiful house! But why have the current owners evidently thrown in the towel? It looks like it was started, but something has gotten in the way. It's very relevant if there's something big and terrifyingly expensive, like a rotten frame, that stops further work.
How long is a piece of string? How much does it cost to renovate? If you're doing everything yourself, expect several years of evenings, weekends, and holidays. You should probably enjoy it. Hiring everything out is not so easy; getting quotes, reading up, understanding. Then you realize you'd rather do the demolition yourself than pay the company 60,000 for the job, and so on. Materials are frightfully expensive. Tools, too. Hanging around on marketplace/blocket quickly becomes a part-time job.
Regards, bought two estates in probate and renovation projects and absolutely love it.
Ps. I haven't gone on a foreign vacation in 6 years, but I don't miss it either. You make your choices.
How long is a piece of string? How much does it cost to renovate? If you're doing everything yourself, expect several years of evenings, weekends, and holidays. You should probably enjoy it. Hiring everything out is not so easy; getting quotes, reading up, understanding. Then you realize you'd rather do the demolition yourself than pay the company 60,000 for the job, and so on. Materials are frightfully expensive. Tools, too. Hanging around on marketplace/blocket quickly becomes a part-time job.
Regards, bought two estates in probate and renovation projects and absolutely love it.
Ps. I haven't gone on a foreign vacation in 6 years, but I don't miss it either. You make your choices.
An exciting project. A lot of work that suits someone who wants to restore a habitable beautiful house.
What I'm considering is the proximity to the street. Now the house is located a bit from E65 so it's probably not that busy.
Nice and beautiful place!
What I'm considering is the proximity to the street. Now the house is located a bit from E65 so it's probably not that busy.
Nice and beautiful place!
Hope you don't have small children.N NybyggareMaria said:
The Swedish Public Employment Service can help with a handy guy for an entry-level job, or whatever it's called, with you as the employer. It will be cheap.
Didn't see anything about it, but is it K/Q-marked? Feels like a house that could be. Otherwise, our house, the municipality says this about "The property is located within a particularly valuable cultural environment." However, there is no website to refer to or similar around this, mainly just some loose opinion from the municipality's side. What it practically means is also hard to say, though it might throw a spanner in the works one day, I imagine.
Worth checking this with the municipality.
Worth checking this with the municipality.