Does a swimming pool add worth to your house in Melbourne?

Dave Tucker, who owns the North Warrandyte residence, mentioned he and spouse Nickey had rebuilt it with a pool about 11 years in the past.

“We’d been to Bali and Asia many occasions, so we wished our residence to have an analogous really feel,” Tucker mentioned.

The pool, he mentioned, had been the center of their residence, a spot to collect with their two youngsters, now younger adults, to catch up and funky off on scorching days.

“It’s actually been a spot the children and their pals can all congregate round – it’s actually household gathering magnet,” he mentioned.

The Tuckers are actually downsizing to the Mornington Peninsula the place properties with swimming pools are fashionable, even by the seashore.

A contemporary four-bedroom residence in Olive Street, Blairgowrie, with a pool terrace, offered for $2.825 million in August final yr.

An older four-bedroom residence on an analogous sized block however with no pool in Court Street, Blairgowrie offered for $2.05 million two months later.

Fletchers Mornington Peninsula’s Josh Callaghan believed the Courtroom Road residence might have requested $2.35 million to $2.4 million if it had a pool.

“Sixty per cent of people who went via the house had been figuring out the place they’d put a pool – would they drop it within the yard, or construct up the land and have it in step with the decking?” he mentioned.

It was an analogous story within the Bayside space, the place round half the patrons curious about some properties desire a spot to swim at residence, though others may be dissuaded by the maintenance necessities.

“I at all times say it’s truly 50/50 – 50 per cent need it and 50 per cent don’t,” Hodges Sandringham director Stephen Wigley mentioned. “Some patrons don’t wish to take care of the upkeep and the security side of a pool.”

Upkeep together with pool chemical compounds and cleansing providers, can value $100 per fortnight within the Bayside space, Wigley mentioned.

However homes with swimming pools can nonetheless garner increased costs than these with out.

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A four-bedroom residence with a pool at 43 Grange Road, Sandringham offered for $2.537 million in September, whereas an analogous residence on an analogous dimension block, with no pool, at 29 Grange Road offered for $2.4 million in November, gross sales information present.

Frank Hellier of eXp Australia, who offered 29 Grange Highway, mentioned whereas a correct pool can add 5 per cent to the value of a house, they will truly be detrimental to a sale, particularly if numerous upkeep is required.

“Total I believe swimming pools are a detriment to a home,” Hellier mentioned. “For individuals who have by no means had a pool, then the swimming pools are enticing, however for second and third residence patrons they don’t at all times need them.

“It may be a deterrent to buy, it turns individuals off shopping for a selected property.”