I can't vote. Not enough information. Ask a realtor who is very familiar with your exact area, condo building, etc. For example, if it's a 3 bedroom 1 bath single family house that is likely to sell to a family in the future, yes, you need a bathtub because the house would be a problem for bathing little kids. But if you are in a hip condo community with a 1 or 2 bedroom 1 bath condo, and that area tends to attract primarily single young professionals, grad/medical students, couples without kids, or retired people who are downsizing, then I'd say no. Another example: You're going to live there forever and never sell it; then it doesn't matter.

But to know for sure you should ask a realtor.

Another scenario: You don't want a tub. You only want a shower. You're going to live there a fair amount of time, say 7-10 years, but not forever. Eventually you'll sell the house, but no immediate plans to do so now. In this case it may be worth it to you to spend the money on a bathroom remodel and build just a fab shower.

You don't know what a future family would want. Most people want 2 bathrooms anyway, and they might have plans to add onto the house and therefore might buy your house and add on a new bathroom. Who knows; you can't guess what future buyers will do. If a family wants to remove the shower and convert it back to a tub/shower combo, they can do that too. Maybe there is something you can do to make sure that process will be more doable for them in the future regarding the plumbing changes you make. I don't know anything about plumbing, but if I were doing this, I might ask the plumber if there's anything to be done to make this more doable in the future. Then your realtor can tell prospective buyers about that.

If this question is here because one or the other wants a tub and the other does not be aware there are things other than bathing that the partner wants to do.

We bought our 3 B 2 & 1/2 bath home on a lake in up north Michigan in 1998, It was our future retirement home. Moved in in 2006. 2 years ago we had the bathtub taken out and redid the bathroom with a step in shower. I love it, we are in our 70's and don't think we ever took a bath, only our grandkids did. Now that we are older we wanted to make it easier for us as we age. We do not care about resale. If that turns off a future buyer, they can keep on looking.

I wouldn’t buy a house without a tub.

As a retired appraiser, my answer is what is common to the local market?

Some previous posters are correct to point out that a single bedroom condo/apartment unit that will marketed to singles won't suffer a loss of valuation due to the missing feature of a bathtub. A shower will have the same functionality as a bath/shower combination in this instance.

If the area is filled with families and there is more than one bedroom you will absolutely need a bathtub. If all the other homes had at least one bathtub, it would be a negative to the valuation because the structure is unlike the surrounding structures. Now, this is due to the unit only having one family bath. If the unit were to have multiple baths, it would be good advice to have at least one bathtub.

I have purchased homes without a bathtub in the master bath, but they were homes with multiple bathrooms and the bath had stubbed plumbing in the wall and proper structural framing that would make retro installation of a bath easy. The family that I sold the home to had multiple children and had no problem with a shower only master bathroom, either.

Our future buyer would probably be new retirees, so we don't think no tub would be a big deal. We are lake front, 108' frontage and lot 450' deep.