Can a Driveway Add Value to Your Home?

The property market is a volatile place and you want to get the best price for your property when you move. Little things can add value to your home and improve its presentation. Inside, your house is immaculately tidy, unusually festooned with fresh flowers and fruit bowls and eerily devoid of skulking teenage children – but you need to pay just as much attention to the outside. A driveway can add value to your home, and it might just be the solution.

Adding Value to Your Home

Parking on the road means scratches to your car’s paintwork from careless delivery drivers, the occasional replacement wing mirror and sometimes having to park half a mile from your house. Small wonder, then, that having an off-road parking space or driveway is estimated by Nationwide to add 8% to the value of your home.

Love at First Sight

Psychologists have observed that first impressions are formed within seven seconds and strongly influence people’s decisions even after more important facts have come to light. If you can make that first glimpse of your property as beautiful as possible, then you are more likely to make a sale and get the money you are asking for. Make sure an attractive driveway of stone flags or elegantly woven brickwork is the first thing a prospective buyer will see, and you’ll add value to your home.

Get in touch with us and we can help you create the perfect driveway that looks beautiful and adds value to your home. Take a look at our gallery for inspiration, then give us a call on 01603 360548 to discuss your plans.