{"id":17131,"date":"2020-06-15T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2024-03-15T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:37:22","slug":"do-gardens-increase-property-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/do-gardens-increase-property-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Gardens Increase Property Value, or Are They Seen As Too Much Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audrey Hepburn famously says<\/a>, \u201cTo plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.\u201d But for every homebuyer who gushes over daylilies or bountiful tomatoes, there\u2019s another who looks at a garden and sees a lot of maintenance \u2014 or a bunch of plants they can\u2019t possibly keep alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cElaborate gardens don\u2019t do it for the buyer,\u201d says Kelley Martin<\/a>, a top-selling agent in San Antonio, Texas, who has a garden at home. \u201cMost people can\u2019t maintain it, or don\u2019t want to maintain it, or think it\u2019s too expensive, or they won\u2019t have the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, a study of 2,001 homeowners in the United Kingdom found that specifically landscaping a garden had a low cost (about \u00a32,750, or roughly $3,500 USD) but a huge return on investment, boosting property value by as much as 77%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dig deeper into whether gardens increase property value, and how to present your garden so it\u2019s a selling point for the right buyer.<\/p>\n

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The benefits of gardens<\/h2>\n

A garden is essentially a dedicated space<\/a> for cultivating plants. Because the definition is so flexible, a garden can encompass a lot more than you might think. Tyler Radford of Hollie\u2019s Farm & Garden<\/a> in Lutz, Florida, which has served the Tampa Bay area for more than twenty years, says types of gardens include:<\/p>\n