Conversations with Andrew Johnson

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.

Improving Outdoors to Improve Your Property Value

ABEAUTIFUL 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.

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.

Engaging professional to do some landscaping, replacing lawn or designing a new garden for the home with automatic watering and outdoor lighting and painting are all options depending on the budget and your estimated return, so reach out to those in your community to help.

Importantly also keep asking yourself if what you’re doing is really necessary to achieve a greater sales result or is there a happy medium that you can achieve a great result at minimum expense. The outside of your home is as important as the inside when looking to achieve the best impression and create competition amongst potential buyers, so plan well when improving the outdoor appeal of your home, first impressions count. That first impression of your property is paramount to achieving the best possible price.

Consider engaging a professional if your budget allows. Investing in a professional landscape design lets you take advantage of your home’s surrounding environment, to create a place where people want to spend time, socialise and work. If you don’t have the budget look at landscape designs and see what you can do yourself to create a visually appealing landscape. Simply adding some nice pathing and edge your gardens is a start towards improving your property’s value.

Planning and improving the outdoor areas around your home will increase your own enjoyment of your property and is an investment in the future value of your property.

Andrew is a licensed estate agent based in Victoria who has enjoyed a long business career in Australia and overseas providing solutions and building a referral business.

www.maxjre.com

Andrew Johnson is a licensed estate agent, businessman & entrepreneur based in Brown Hill who has enjoyed a long and varied business career in Australia and overseas providing solutions and building a strong referral business.

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Email andrew@maxjre.com LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/andrew-johnson-8435092 Company Maxwell Johnson Real Estate Pty Ltd Address 9 Gracefield Road, Brown Hill, VIC 3350