15 Reason to Landscape Your Yard

May 28, 2013 by davesyardbarber Leave a comment

• A well-designed landscape has the ability to cut your year around energy cost dramatically, protect your home from winter wind and summer sun and help control noise and air polutions.
• Carefully and properly positioned trees can save up to 25% of a household’s energy consumption for heating and cooling.
• On average, a well-designed landscape provides enough energy savings to return your initial investment is less than 8 years.
• A well-planned landscape can reduce an un-shaded home’s summer air conditioning cost by 15-50%.
• Shading and evapotranspiration from trees can reduce surrounding air temperatures as much as 9 degrees F.
• Studies found that summer daytime air temperatures can be 3-6 degrees F cooler in tree shaded neighborhoods than in treeless areas.
• Research shows that home price premiums increase for home landscapes that are upgraded from good to excellent as well as an upgrade from average to good.
• Landscaping can bring a recovery value of 100 to 200 percent at selling time. Kitchen remodeling brings a 75 to 125 percent recovery rate, bathroom remodeling a 20 to 120 percent recovery rate, and addition of a swimming pool a 20 to 50 percent recovery rate.
• By spending 5% of the value of your home on the installation of a quality low-maintenance landscape, you could boost the resale by 15%, earning back 150% or more of your landscape investment.
• A mature tree can often have an appraised value of between $1,000 and $10,000.
• Real estate appraisers agree that landscaping adds to property value, while as well as increased speed of home sales.
• Realtors believe that mature trees have a “strong or moderate impact” on the salability of homes.
• Professional landscaping saves you time, makes you money, and increases curb appeal of your home.
• Shade trees save products inside your home from sun damage.
• Professional landscaping will increase the likelihood of proper plant and tree placement, provide for future growth, and bring a greater return on investment.