The loft is a two story apartment where the wizarding Russo Family lives. It is located above the Waverly Sub Station and the Lair.
Features
In the right door by the oven, there is a bathroom that is never seen. The Upper Stairs is leads to Alex, Justin, Max, and Jerry and Theresa's rooms. Max's room is seen in Report Card in Season 1. Justin's room is seen in episodes, Monster Hunter and in Franken Girl in Season 3. It was also seen in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie. Alex's room is seen in Hugh's Not Normous in Season 2 . Theresa and Jerry's room were never seen. The upstairs is shown rarely.
History
Before the series
After Theresa and Jerry married, they bought the apartment where the Russo siblings would grown up. It's possible that they would later add the stairwell into the Sub Station and that at some point the lair had been created, by Alex's great grand father, though it's not known who charmed it.
The series
As the Russos spent most of their time in the lair or the sub station, the loft is seen during the Russos free time. It was in the loft that Max gained his full powers (and maybe his siblings also). However, after Alex wrongly fell in love with herself after drinking a love potion, Justin gave the hat to neutralize the potion's side effects (it made her head grow to epic proportions) Max's unstable full powers began to summon food from the four corners of the world.
In season three Mason came to dinner with the Russos but, he abruptly left, which made Alex suspicious. It would be in the loft that the Russos would came to known about Mason being a werewolf. It was also here that Alex decided to expose wizardry to the world in the Alex Tells the World and that the Russo found out that a asteroid was lurking towards the Earth.