{"id":707,"date":"2021-05-07T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:33:25","slug":"could-your-front-door-increase-your-homes-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2021\/05\/07\/could-your-front-door-increase-your-homes-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Could your front door increase your home\u2019s value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>With millions of homeowners taking advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday and putting their home on the market, eager sellers have been looking at ways to increase the value of their property. So, they might be interested in research<sup>1<\/sup> that has unearthed a little-known way of adding value to your home: the colour of your front door!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>The most valuable colours<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>According to the study, the most valuable front door colour is blue, potentially adding an astonishing \u00a34,000 to your house value. Next most valuable is a white door, adding an average of \u00a33,400, with red doors coming in third place at \u00a31,800. Conversely, brown doors are the least valuable and could in fact decrease your home\u2019s value by \u00a3700.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>First impressions count<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The study also consulted an environmental psychologist to gauge the impact of door colour on buyers. He said, <em>\u201cThe colour of your front door can influence a buyer\u2019s initial perception. Our eyes are drawn to entrance points, so a front door is often one of the first things you notice.\u201d <\/em>Therefore, the colour of your front door could potentially make the difference between a quick sale or months of waiting. That\u2019s one job to place at the top of your springtime to do list \u2013 paintbrush at the ready!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Sellhousefast.uk, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong><em>As a mortgage is secured against your home or property, it could be repossessed if you do not keep up mortgage repayments.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With millions of homeowners taking advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday and putting their home on the market, eager sellers have been looking at ways to increase the value of their property. So, they might be interested in research1 that has unearthed a little-known way of adding value to your home: the colour of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,91],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}