Room in the roof

With "room in the roof", you can improve the consumer appeal and lower your average per square foot cost by 9%. This can increase the profitability of your homes and give you a tremendous competitive advantage in today's tough market.

Room in the roof offers you a substantial competitive advantage in several areas:

• Differentiates your homes from those of other builders by using innovative floor plans that home buyers will remember.
• Provides a solution for efficient home design that maximizes the usable square footage. This is the #1 desire of most home buyers
• Enhances your reputation as a high quality, cutting edge, and environmentally friendly builder.
• Expert assistance from the VELUX architectural staff on how to modify plans and uncover hidden profits at no cost to you.

Room in the roof can enhance the consumer appeal of your homes by providing:

• More space:
• 61% of married couples with children want 4 or more bedrooms.
• 58% of homebuyers want a home office.
• The ability to live in the same house for a longer period of time.
• The opportunity for home buyers to expand their home as their family grows.
• Additional affordable space—54% of homebuyers are willing to accept unfinished space to make a house more affordable, provided it can be finished into desirable living space.
• A boost in a home's resale value by finishing out roughed-in space.

Room in the roof increases the profitability of your homes by:

• Reducing the overall per square foot construction cost by 9%*.
• Making higher margin dollars on additional space.
• Efficiently using land to build up, not out.
• Increasing the home appraisal values—finished attics and bonus rooms typically appraise at 100% of the value of the rest of the house while basements typically appraise only 40%–70%.