Potty Talk - The Value of Additional Bathrooms

This article from Realtor.org says that adding an additional bathroom to a home or remodeling an existing bathroom can be a good investment for homeowners - adding more to the value of the home than the cost of the addition or renovation. This contrasts with many other home improvements that, on average, fail to recoup their costs upon sale.

My experience in Philadelphia certainly supports this article - I find that an extra bathroom or half-bathroom greatly increases a home's attractiveness to buyers. Since most Philadelphia rowhomes originally had only one bathroom, you can set your house apart from competing properties by adding a second bath or even a small powder-room. To be truly valuable though I think an extra bathroom needs to be conveniently located (not in the basement) and big enough to be practical (not a converted coat closet).

If you're thinking of selling soon it may be worth the cost to squeeze a second bathroom into your floor-plan.