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I am thinking about having my back garden tidied up and made low
maintenance. I estimate that this will cost circa £2,000. At the moment it doesnt look great - It needs fencing/trellis both sides to make it private and there is too much in there in terms of bushes/trees etc. Can I ask whether this investment would pay off in terms of adding value to my property i.e would it at least add £2,000 to the valuation? |
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"Ray Mooney" wrote in message ... I am thinking about having my back garden tidied up and made low maintenance. I estimate that this will cost circa £2,000. At the moment it doesnt look great - It needs fencing/trellis both sides to make it private and there is too much in there in terms of bushes/trees etc. Can I ask whether this investment would pay off in terms of adding value to my property i.e would it at least add £2,000 to the valuation? Yes if the next person is likes it. No if the next person in is put off by it and 'knocks you down' in price because of the work which has got to be done to 'tidy the garden up' As an example, one of my daughters is buying another house. The bathroom has only been in for a couple of years. It is awful and we are stripping it out and replacing it. Possibly £3000 worth 'down the drain' and cheapened the house as far as my daughter is concerned. However, if you want to invest that amount 'for your pleasure', then yes. I am spending about £1000 putting a verandah across the back of the house. "We" like it. I doubt if it has put £1000 on the house and if the next people in, ........... when we pop our cloggs, don't like it, then a mornings work with a saw and a hammer takes it down :-(( Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
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"Mike" wrote in message ... "Ray Mooney" wrote in message ... I am thinking about having my back garden tidied up and made low maintenance. I estimate that this will cost circa £2,000. At the moment it doesnt look great - It needs fencing/trellis both sides to make it private and there is too much in there in terms of bushes/trees etc. Can I ask whether this investment would pay off in terms of adding value to my property i.e would it at least add £2,000 to the valuation? Yes if the next person is likes it. No if the next person in is put off by it and 'knocks you down' in price because of the work which has got to be done to 'tidy the garden up' As an example, one of my daughters is buying another house. The bathroom has only been in for a couple of years. It is awful and we are stripping it out and replacing it. Possibly £3000 worth 'down the drain' and cheapened the house as far as my daughter is concerned. However, if you want to invest that amount 'for your pleasure', then yes. I am spending about £1000 putting a verandah across the back of the house. "We" like it. I doubt if it has put £1000 on the house and if the next people in, ........... when we pop our cloggs, don't like it, then a mornings work with a saw and a hammer takes it down :-(( Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 Doesnt seem worth spending any money on a property in your neck of the woods, Mike. I understood the particularly run down area of Lake where you live, is likely to be "redeveloped" before very long..................... |
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Ray Mooney wrote:
I am thinking about having my back garden tidied up and made low maintenance. I estimate that this will cost circa £2,000. At the moment it doesnt look great - It needs fencing/trellis both sides to make it private and there is too much in there in terms of bushes/trees etc. Can I ask whether this investment would pay off in terms of adding value to my property i.e would it at least add £2,000 to the valuation? Depending on location, style and price band, some designers hold that a "designed" garden adds 5-10% to property values. I think that is too high, but £2000 should be easily covered. New fences and a space that people want to be in rather than shut the door on MUST add valu. pk |
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Doesnt seem worth spending any money on a property in your neck of the woods, Mike. I understood the particularly run down area of Lake where you live, is likely to be "redeveloped" before very long..................... Oh dear :-(( Once again 'ken' pokes his oar into something he knows sod all about, does a little bit of sh1t stirring and gets it wrong :-(( Why do you bother? Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
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Ray Mooney writes
I am thinking about having my back garden tidied up and made low maintenance. I estimate that this will cost circa £2,000. At the moment it doesnt look great - It needs fencing/trellis both sides to make it private and there is too much in there in terms of bushes/trees etc. Can I ask whether this investment would pay off in terms of adding value to my property i.e would it at least add £2,000 to the valuation? Well, as a gardener, I find the concept of 'too much in there in terms of bushes/trees' hard to get my mind around. If I were a potential buyer, I'd be put off by an 'instant' minimalist garden - I'd be comparing it with an equivalent amount of bare space and be estimating how much it would cost me to remove the decking, excess patio etc. Otoh, since you are not a gardener, a tidy desert will sell the house better than a well-planted overgrown jungle. My advice would be to do whatever you need to make back garden work for you, at whatever cost is worth it to you, and not to assess in terms of increased value. Otoh, if what you are asking us is 'I am about to sell my house and want to do whatever quick tarting up will increase its value' an estate agent will probably give better advice. -- Kay |
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, mow the lawn and tidy
the edges of the lawn, too. Nothing makes a garden look presentable faster than neat grass. -- Sacha South Devon (email address on website) Not toooooooo often that I have to agree with the Sacha, but when we opened our garden to the public last year, it was quite surprising the number of people, once over the "Wow" factor, remarked "Oh you have a lawn. So nice to see a bit of grass after all the hard landscaping, boarding and gravel etc" :-((( Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
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