Giving your garden a well thought out makeover not only results in an improved outdoor living space, it can also add to the overall value of your home in three important ways.
1. Personal value
Perhaps the most important way a landscaped garden adds value to your home is how it makes you feel as an owner. Your new space is designed to perfectly compliment your needs and enhance the way you use your outside space.
Starting from scratch with your garden, allows you to design in all those features you know you’ll get lots of use from over the years. This could include an outdoor kitchen and entertaining area for the summer months. A peaceful garden office. Or a secret area for the kids to play and build dens.
With some clever planting as part of your plans, you’ll soon have a space that will change through the seasons giving you year round views to enjoy.
2. Sale value and appeal
Adding a landscaped garden also enhances the aesthetic appeal of a home – an important factor if you’re thinking of selling. It’s the same as a building developer employing an interior designer for a show home, it provides potential buyers with a clear view of how their new home could look, and how they could use it were they to invest.
There a number of recognised benefits a beautiful garden can bring when it comes to selling a property:
- Kerb appeal: an interesting and well cared for garden will catch the eye of anyone looking for a property in your area, having a positive impact on increasing interest and enquiries.
- Improved sale-ability: increased interest has a knock on effect to higher prices being offered from potential buyers, or a faster sale.
- Adding character: landscaping a garden can change how a property feels, allowing a buyer to picture themselves in your home.
- Stand out: your garden can set your property apart from the others in the neighbourhood, differentiating it from other properties that potential buyers have been looking at. It might be the crucial deciding factor in their choice of putting an offer in on yours over another!
3. Measurable value
Measurable value is whether or not adding a landscaped garden adds any monetary value to your property.
When calculating this value it can depend on the current condition of the garden at the time of appraisal and the local housing market.
There are a several instances where transforming a garden will always increase the overall value of a property. This is particularly the case when:
- The garden was previously just bare earth
- The garden is completely overgrown or neglected to the point where buyers could use this fact to negotiate a lower offer
- There is no noticeable garden space, such as converting a roof terrace
In cases such as these, you are effectively adding a usable garden where there wasn’t one before, even if it is just a small but beautiful roof terrace.
To find out how a landscaped garden will increase your property’s value, or you want a space that will complete your home, then please feel free to call Thames Valley Landscapes on 01628 629720 or visit our contact page.