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The forecast for the next few years is a bit depressing if you’re a property owner – diminishing house prices are causing a great worry for many individuals. Some home owners will actually experience negative equity shortly, if not already. Still, there are ways to avoid this issue. The Solution : to add value to your home. How? By doing up your home. DIY / home improvements can bring far greater value to your house than the actual cost of those improvements.

So where to begin? A good place to start is to consider the least used rooms in your property. It could be a utility room or an adjoining garage. Knocking down a wall can turn such a rarely used room into a kitchen or living room extension which can bring a great deal of value to your property. Also look at the electrics and plumbing. Dimmer switches can transform ugly bright rooms into cosy, warm rooms just via a dimmer dial – simply light transforming the room! Possibly your house doesn’t have a downstairs bathroom? Then get one put in where your adjoining garage is – once more this can add much value to your home.

Perhaps your 4 bedroomed house could be changed to 3 bedroom by taking a wall down, and producing a much bigger room. This may sound a little strange, but actually bigger rooms will give you a better sale value, and quite often people use a 4th bedroom purely as a spare room (meaning it’s not really used or important) .

Next take a look at your garden. Do you have a shed? If not, think about installing one in your garden. Why? Well, here is one place where you can stock all your gear that’s congesting up your spare bedroom / garage / utility room. Having a shed helps also with the gardening, and enthusiastic gardeners (read: your potential home buyer) like a shed in their garden. Also do some gardening yourself! If your garden’s been ignored, then mow the lawn, plant flowers, cut the garden edges. Also consider installing decking. Just providing a beverage to a potential buyer out in your glorious garden can really help sell the place – viewers feel comfortable in such surroundings – so your garden is very important to help raise the price of your property and help sell your home.

So where to look for some help? Look online. A home and garden directory like homeandgardenlistings.co.uk has all kinds of home and garden websites listed there : including a directory of bathroom fitters, directory of builders, directory of painters and decorators, directory of general furniture suppliers, directory of bedroom furniture and beds suppliers etc.

These are just a handful introductory tips on raising the value of your property in these tricky times, but and we hope you find these useful.

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