Can the Right Landscaping Increase Your Home’s Value?

Landscaping is a timeless, beautiful, and enjoyable way to increase your home’s value while increasing your quality of life. After all, while a patio or fire pit might elevate the asking price for your home, it can also be plenty of fun to enjoy before you sell it.

However, critics can sometimes be divided about whether or not landscaping will increase or decrease your property value. That’s often because you need the right landscaping to improve, and others will decrease your value.

Landscaping That Can Decrease Your Property’s Value

Many of the landscaping features that can hurt your home’s buyer value the most aren’t decision you make but things that crop up organically over time. Unfortunately, if you don’t have time to fix it, it will still reflect poorly on your home. Consider hiring a landscaping company to make fixes if your landscaping is experiencing any of these crises:

Disjointed Design

Rotting or Failing Deck or Patio

Koi Ponds

Big Budget Niche Features

Visible or Inefficient Irrigation Lines

Too Much Concrete

Poor Lighting

Landscaping That Will Increase Your Property’s Value

Landscaping features that will help your home fetch a better price range, from simple maintenance projects to more extensive home improvement projects. Some of these, like a patio or fire pit, saw a massive boom in demand during the pandemic because more people realized that they wanted to enjoy their homes more. Adding these features and up-keeping your current ones will make a big difference in your bottom line.

If you don’t have time to do the minor upkeep or the significant changes, a landscaping company can help implement:

General Landscaping Maintenance:

Keeping a well-manicured lawn free of weeds, lush and green, and trimmed periodically makes a substantive difference in the value of your home. This extends to trees, shrubs, and flowers as well.

Upgrading The Front Walkway:

The first impression should be a good one, and walkways can be relatively inexpensive to upgrade, so it’s easy to increase the value if your walkway is chipped, broken, or just a patch in the grass.

Planting Trees:

Mature trees can increase your home’s value by $1,000-10,000 and reduce the need for heating by 20%-50%. It even increases privacy, which appeals to buyers.

Installing Landscape Lighting:

When landscaping lighting is done right, it adds to the aesthetic of your home while increasing safety after dark.

Fire pit:

Fire pits are affordable and accessible ways to boost the enjoyability of your home, which will also increase the value.

Building a Deck or Patio:

More people than ever want to enjoy the outdoors in the privacy of their homes. As a result, landscapers and real estate agents have experienced a boom in requests for outdoor living spaces in the last few years.

We’ll Help You Choose The Right Landscaping

If you’re scouting around for the ideal way to get more value out of your Tampa Bay Area home but don’t have the time to get knee-deep in the dirt, bricks, and grass of it all, we’ve got you covered. Progressive Lawn and Landscapers can help you with your landscaping needs, ensuring the project is done right and beautiful the first time so you can get the most return on your investment. So contact us to get started on increasing your home’s value today!