Improving Outdoors to Improve Your Property Value
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Andrew Johnson
BEAUTIFUL garden is a powerful selling tool for your home. It creates a positive first impression and helps potential buyers feel if the garden has been well maintained then the home likely has been too. It also sets the scene for a positive open inspection. First impressions or curb appeal are important for your property when buyers are looking online or driving past, so hero shots great photography, drone shots, video and VR are important to capture the outdoor appeal of your home when selling to generate competition amongst buyers and achieve the best result. Depending on the home, its location, design, available land around the house and making sure you don’t overcapitalise its useful to keep landscaping or improvements to your outdoor areas simple, classic and understated. As the home owner there are most likely outstanding maintenance issues or projects that need completing to ensure the property looks appealing to potential buyers and presents well. Landscape economists suggest that good landscaping can add up to 28% to overall home value.
Most Australians have an affinity for the outdoors, and those that have grown up with a garden have experienced the joys of entertaining, BBQ’s, parties, gardening, planting, growing vegetables or just mowing the lawn at their own family’s properties or another’s.
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There many resources available when looking to improve the outdoor appeal of your property and frankly you can do a lot yourself without professional help, basic maintenance, cleaning windows, walls, fences, sheds, pruning, removing dead plants, weeding, mowing the lawns, putting down new mulch, fixing edges or whatever is needed to best present the property.
