Making home improvements can be a simple way to increase your property value. Some upgrades, like kitchen tile and lighting, boost resale values more than others.  Experts told Insider which home renovations do the most to bolster home prices. The pandemic has driven a boom in home improvement spending, according to Harvard researchers. In 2020, US spending on home improvements and repairs grew more than 3{d4d1dfc03659490934346f23c59135b993ced5bc8cc26281e129c43fe68630c9} to nearly $420 billion, according to a report by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, as people rethought how to comfortably live and work during the pandemic. Americans’ nesting habits are primed to continue even as prices for appliances and materials, like wood,…