{"id":1187,"date":"2016-07-03T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2016-07-03T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:16:46","slug":"design-a-garden-to-sell-a-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/design-a-garden-to-sell-a-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Design A garden To Sell A Property."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Selling your house &#8211; Landscaping or improving your garden to help sell your house.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlthough improving your garden in itself does not improve your properties value it has been proven by research to help sell your house in a short period of time and help you achieve the asking price for the property.<br \/>\nFirst impressions count, whether its a possible purchaser viewing your property by a viewing visit or seeing pictures of your property on the internet for the first time on such sites as findaproperty\u00a0A well designed garden can add the &#8220;wow factor&#8221; to any house increasing its impact and making it stand out within a group of other houses for sale within the same area and price range.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe GardenAdvice team have produced a number of short points for you to follow in producing a garden that will help sell your property<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First set a time period when you are likely to place your house on the market. This will allow you to use a number of plants that will be at their most colourful then your property is for sale increasing your properties impact.<\/li>\n<li>Garden Shapes and views &#8211; If you have a narrow garden or L Shaped garden by splitting it into different areas and introducing pergolas or archways it possible to give the garden the look of a far larger garden than it actilay it.<\/li>\n<li>Consider your buyers &#8211; think about your possible buyers, if the property is in an area with good schools it might be worth focusing some of the garden on a child friendly water feature or if the property is in a coastal area popular with retired people it might be worth installing a ramp in place of some existing steps<\/li>\n<li>See what other property styles are selling in your area. If modern looking house are selling in your area you can create a modern looking garden with pots and structured plants such as grasses and evergreen plants such as skimmia japonica<\/li>\n<li>Lawns \u2013 a great way to add life to a garden is to relay a lawn using first class turf and mulch the beds around the lawn with bark mulch to set off the new lawn.<\/li>\n<li>Drives &#8211; Old tarmac drives can be treated with a tarmac restorer paint and brick paving drives can be re-sealed in both cases this will improve the look of a drive and provide a new look<\/li>\n<li>Scented plants \u2013 using mildly scented plants near your front door such as sweet peas is a great way to make a favourable first impression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Work with your agent and such web sites as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>make such they publish not only picture of your house but also the garden as this will help make your property stand out. \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/howto\/garden-build\/improve-garden\/index.html\">\u00a0Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling your house &#8211; Landscaping or improving your garden to help sell your house. &nbsp; Although improving your garden in itself does not improve your properties value it has been proven by research to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}