By HILARY JOHNSON
Home Landscape Design and its Effects to the Real Estate Value
Home landscaping is simply, transforming, rearranging, and improving the features of the ground around your home into a more pleasant piece of property in the aesthetic standpoint and/or for a practical use.
For example, the garden needs to have more plants or grasses; or the big tree in your backyard needs to be trimmed; or landscaping your front yard or back yard. These small decisions can provide a big boost on the value of your real estate. This is especially useful if your home is destined to go to the listings.
How?
A spiffy home landscaping design can increase the value of the home by as much as 15%. So if you have a $300,000 piece of real estate, you’ve just earned another $45,000 by just adding a good landscaping. Now that’s a good decision to make! But it does not stop there so easily.
The increased value of your home will not be seen until you decided to place it on the listing. The viability of your home does not only lie on the home itself but on the taste of the potential buyers. In other words, an overly personalized home landscape can be expensive but not really viable is useless compared to simple yet attractive design.
It is, therefore, important to make sure that you know what type of home landscaping design is more appealing to home buyers in a span of years so that you keep the value of your home up and at the same time, you attract home buyers whenever you decided to sell it.
Take note of the following tips to know the sought after home landscaping designs in the market:
1.) The internet, books, magazines, and televisions provide great information about the kinds of landscaping designs that are currently selling.
2.) Observe home landscape designs of other homes from higher-class neighborhood.
3.) Seek professional help from people in the landscape design business.
4.) If you don’t want to spend money hiring professionals, read articles about home landscaping. They can usually be found on the internet and magazines for free and are written by professionals too.
5.) Ask your real estate agent about the buyer’s sought after landscape design and the latest trends on home landscape design.
You may have followed these tips but you cannot fully guarantee that your landscape design will help your home sell. Take note that your potential buyers seek other factors other than design
1.) Special elements. Waterfalls, fountains, and artificial ponds are some of the most sought after landscape elements that buyers look for. It is surely an attention grabber when you have installed or constructed one on your ground.
2.) Low maintenance home landscape design. Different home buyers may have different tastes when it comes to the design, but they will surely look for one thing: they all seek a low maintenance home landscape design.
3.) Year-round visual interests. Shrubs, evergreens and other plants that grow all year round are great addition to your garden since buyers usually look for homes that grow plants that never whiter during the winter.
Selling your home must start from the outside. That is why it is very important that you have a good home landscape design to increase not only the value of your home, but also the viability of it.