The 4 Best Projects to Boost Your Home’s Value Right Now — and How Much Each Costs

If you’re a homeowner, this is the time of year when you start thinking about adding curb appeal to your house with landscaping and other affordable outdoor projects — especially if you’re thinking about selling your home.

According to new research digital home-improvement platform Houzz provided exclusively to MONEY, more than half of the over 26,000 homeowners surveyed undertook an outdoor renovation of some kind last year. Many of these home improvement projects were pretty cheap, with median budgets starting at $400 for new outdoor lighting, and going up to $14,000 and beyond to put in a pool.

The survey is a good snapshot of what Americans value most in their outdoor space and where they’re willing to spend on home improvement projects. A little more than half of the outdoor renovators tackled a project in the front of the house. Boosting curb appeal is a key recommendation from realtors to would-be sellers. (Of course, even if you have no plans to move, having the nicest house on the block is its own reward.)

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