Increasing the Value of your Preserve @ Jordan Lake Home by Enhancing your Landscaping

To find out more about landscape tree appraisal, click here.  The value of landscape trees is normally greater than the dollar value of the marketable wood they contain. Landscape trees are used for many architectural, engineering, climatic, and aesthetic purposes.  A realistic appraisal of landscape trees is often required to settle legal disputes, damage claims or casualty loss

You might ask yourself, “why do I want to spend so much time landscaping my Preserve @ Jordan Lake yard when I don’t even spend time in it?”  Well the Gardening Guru has some advice for you on the values of landscaping.  Three points they mention are that it can add between 7 and 15 percent to a home’s value, it brings a high recovery value compared to the other aspects of the home, and it can reduce air conditioning costs by up to 50 percent

Landscaping is a natural and beautiful way to keep your Preserve @ Jordan Lake home more comfortable and reduce your energy bills. A primary source of heat buildup is sunlight absorbed by your home's roof, walls, and windows. Dark-colored home exteriors absorb 70% to 90% of the radiant energy from the sun that strikes the home's surfaces. Some of this absorbed energy is then transferred into your home by way of conduction, resulting in heat gain inside the house. In contrast, light-colored surfaces effectively reflect most of the heat away from your home. 

Plants and Landscaping can be beneficial to a home in many ways.  Landscaping can add between 7 and 15 percent to a home’s real estate value.  Landscaping can reduce air conditioning costs by up to 50 percent.  Trees can also reduce bothersome noise up to 50 percent.  To see the other values of plants and landscaping to help reduce the energy cost and increase the value of your Durham home, click here.

Most homeowners landscape their property purely for aesthetic reasons. Yet providing your home with a little shade has another and perhaps more consequential advantage: Landscaping may significantly reduce your energy bills. A strategically placed tree, for example, could save as much as 25 percent of a household's energy bill for heating and cooling, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's  Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC).

Attractive landscaping can increase the real estate market value of your home.  Improving landscaping from "average" to "excellent" could increase the market value of your home by 10-12%.  In a recent study of over 200 home sales, those homes judged by a landscape professional to have "good" landscaping sold for 4-5% more than "average" landscaped homes. "Excellent" landscaped homes sold for 6-7% more than "good" landscaped homes.   The Better the Landscaping, The Higher the Home Value