Even restaurants and retail businesses that fail to cut their grass or clean up their parking lots need to realize beauty brings out the best in life. These evaluations were done in the same quarter the house was sold so the information would be relevant. Landscaping was critiqued for the type, size and condition of the plants and how they were arranged. Because landscaping is often subjective, the survey merged the average and poor categories, and merged the good and excellent categories. Traffic density and quality of neighborhood landscaping were also considered.
Results say it best.
Houses in neighborhoods with great landscaping sold for about 19 percent more than similar homes in neighborhoods with less landscaping. The impact of landscape quality seemingly increased with lot size. The professor stresses that these results are specific to the Greenville area. Who, however, can doubt that landscaping says a lot about the good, the bad and the ugly surrounding a home. A lot of it depends on the quality of the landscaping, says real estate appraiser Cecil Miller of Newport News.