Do the gardens affect sales prices on houses?

[Darvick]

well do they and are there certain layouts buyers like like inside the houses?

[Gruesome Puglet]

NO

[zz.natasha]

Originally posted by Pirotessaq:

The first "Garden" property you can buy is basically just a huge property with a small building they claim is a storage. I added a small bathroom and made it a very small home. The garden I went all out. Laid paths in swirly patterns, ponds, bridges, gazebo and a nice fenced off garden that looked like a crop garden. And since you can't remove or move trees already there my paths wound through and around them. It was cool looking like willy wonka looking. Tons of flowers and trees. Did the contest and it only added 7% to the price. But when selling, none of the buyers showed any interest in the garden, none! They all griped at how the house was too small. I lost 10k on that property. The garden should have an effect on the buyers or there is no point in even mowing.

Та же проблема. Возникает вопрос- зачем заниматься садом, если работа приносит убыток? Но если в саду ничего не делать - зачем такая территория? Дом всего 14 м2, а покупатели хотят отдельную ванную, спальню и гостиную. Хорошо, что сауну еще не попросили. А про сад они не вспоминают, как-будто его нет. Потеряла 6600 евро и много нервов. Обидно!!!

[SericaRose]

Originally posted by twistedartsglassstudio:

apparently the company doesnt honor refunds so im stuck with this garbage DLC will be the last thing i ever buy from them hopefully the new luxury house renovation game does a better job in this area

Refunds have nothing to do with the company or the game. They are entirely up to Steam. Have refunded several games BUT must be within 2 weeks and less than 1 hour (I think) game play.

[Smoke79]

I got the "house in a thicket" for the initial 76,000 and after doing the whole property inside and out, it sold for 153,000!, so I'd say doing the yard makes a difference! even though we don't see the "buyers" responding to the "work" we've done

[Streamqueen]

Completing the garden contest before selling will add value from my gameplay experience of over 90 hours.

With this said though, if you go to the laptop and click on Browser and then Sold you can find a list of expenditures and profit. After having sold my house I reviewed this and it logged Garden Contest money, however, when I logged off and back on it no longer showed it. My money stayed in my overall money pot but the record of where it was gained has gone as the Garden Contest then said $0.00.

When doing the Pink Kingdom I relied heavily on the Garden to make a bigger profit. In the sold log it says:

House Price $ - 142,635.55
Penalty for cancelling auction $0
Renovation cost $ - 2,508.41
Furniture Bought $ - 5,180.11
Furniture Sold $ 18,581.95
House Sale $ 135,651.34
Negotiation $0
Garden Contest $0

Profit of $47, 995.91

If I listen to the browser record it is suggesting I had:
Spending Total would then be $150,324.07
Money in Total $ 154, 233.29 so I would have only gained $3909.22 profit which is not right.

It thus accurately records my overall profit of $47,995.91 but fails to keep a record of where all that money came from. I actually sold the house itself for less than I bought it but the garden contest plus the car in the garage helped raise my final profits.

It has missed $44,086.69 off in total which I can only assume now is the number that is missing from the Garden Contest section.


Another example:

House after the Flood

House Price $ - 58,130.77
Penalty for cancelling auction $0
Renovation cost $ - 1,797.14
Furniture Bought $ - 19,219.50
Furniture Sold $ 3,129.69
House Sale $ 104,252.13
Negotiation $5,000.00
Garden Contest $0

Profit of $82,397.86

Summary I can make: $ 79,147.41 Spent
Made $ 112,381.63
So, I only made $33,234.22 if I listen to the summary outlaid parts but if I check that it said I made $82,397.86 then I made $49,163.38 on the garden that it has forgotten about.


Hope this helps in some way to someone!

[SericaRose]

Getting 5 stars in each of the 3 categories for one of the garden competitions adds 50% to the value of the house. Quite a lot actually.

[Jack Greedy]

How to submit garden to a contest?

[SericaRose]

If I remember correctly - hit ENTER and then chose GARDEN CONTEST. Then pick the style of garden that most fits what you are doing. That's pretty much it. I think doing a contest costs money, but by the stage you will be at, not really important. If you want to just see how close you are getting to a goal, hit ESC to go out, chose RE-ENTER CONTEST (don't know why this isn't automatic, but it isn't) and then you hit ESC again to go out, with a 10 min wait. Might sound complicated but really easy. I usually do several which helps me see which way my garden is going. Getting 5 stars is worth it, but it is a LOT of work.

[cherylfranchina]

Don't give up on the game! I'm sad that the garden is frustrating some players. I am not a developer but I have sold every house at least twice and gardened for most of them. This is how I think the game works.
The garden design features (everything under the garden button on the store menu) and the contest are an expansion set tacked loosely onto House Flipper. Doing gardens and landscaping is fun but pointless unless you enter the gardening contest. Without being in the contest, I don't think the buyers care about anything outside except trash and dirt and un-mowed grass, which was probably part of the original HF game.
If you don't enter the garden contest, the money you spend on outside things will increase total spent on the house, which (I think, but haven't proven) increases the auction bid. This is probably why you are seeing profit increase with garden items added. Unless you try to sell the same exact house twice (without garden, eat the cancellation fee, and resell with the garden), I can't say for sure.
Think of the "contest" as garden flipping with five potential buyers (one who likes American style, one who likes modern style, etc). The house buyers (Chang, Dolan, Smoths, etc.) do NOT care which garden you choose! You can choose any garden for any house (or none) and it will not affect the top buyer at all. You choose the garden style when you enter the contest, and you are then rated on how well you satisfy that style with zero-five star ratings in three categories, a profit %, and a numerical score (not sure why). You can enter the contest, get (minimal) feedback, and enter again but you must wait ten minutes; this makes it impractical to add or delete one item at a time to test a theory as to what is needed. Also, if you quit the game without selling, you must re-enter the contest to get the garden bonus before selling.
You can earn huge profits when flipping the house by doing the garden contest. The EXTRA profit you earn can be up to 50% of the house sale price for five stars in all three categories. This is completely unrealistic but a strong motivation to match the garden style you choose. Unfortunately, you are matching to a not well-explained ideal of the game developers, which can be endlessly frustrating to those seeking perfection. Many suggestions on how to get 50% bonus have been posted and one guide. There are some hints each time you load a property regarding gardens (except the Japanese garden, for which they never added hints).
Unfortunately, a major peeve of mine is that garden profits are not saved long term in your game laptop, like your regular sale profit and negotiation profit.

[Ceana of the Crags]

I've never sold anything for a loss. How is that even possible? Unless you stripped away a kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom that your buyer would have wanted. You have to open the buyer panel and see what the 3 highest bidders want. I usually target a specific buyer. I just had an apartment sell for 137k. I bought it for 88k or so. I just added a ton of shelves, which the buyer is into. Oddly, when I sealed off an office for him, he was no longer the top bidder. The crazy plant and picture lady was, and the elderly rug couple was second. When I stripped out the door from the new office, he sprang back up to the top.

But then, the devs never have bothered fixing the buyer issues. There is still conflicting information in their portfolios, and annoyingly enough, they say at least two bathrooms, then redundantly empasize that it needs to be a minimum of two bathrooms. It's like the devs cannot understand English well enough when I say "get a native speaker to check your stuff". Snowball does not equal snow globe. LOL

[SericaRose]

The garden can add up to 50 % to the value of the house, so really worth the time and effort.

[zotter.christian]

You should have a look to the "guides"-tab next to the "workshop"-tab. There is a category "walkthrou", it explains all what You need for the different "garden-styles" to make much money! Today I sold the small house, dont know the english name, it has a secret in the cellar, a picture for about € 40.000,-. I renovated it completely with a second bedroom in the cellar, and did on 2 sides of the house an "english garden"like it is descriped in the guide! Including the treasure of 40.000,- I got a PROFIT of over € 150.000,-!!!

[piranha]

It must be possible to make a loss on a sale since I've read about it in one of the achievement guide comments, and the person sounded legit. But I have a hard time imagining it, unless you try to really cheese it with minimum effort. I have money coming out of my ears in this game. The lowest profit I ever made was €7000, and in retrospect that was because I was a complete newb.

The garden adds 50% when you get 5* in all categories; I just did that with my very first garden (I had only 4 in Layout at first, but then I plopped a few more items down in different sections, matched the plants up symmetrically in the entire front, and bingo, 5*. It was only a lot of work because that was my first garden, I think it could be pared down a lot; I'll take that as a challenge now. Not like Ted cared one whit for the nice crops that'll help him survive, he kvetched there wasn't enough food. Man, the buyer AI slays me.

50% increase is huge. I bought the house for 125k, the sale offer was 185k and the garden added an extra 92k, plus I negotiated for a total profit of 156k. I had fun doing it, too, or otherwise nothing in this game would be worth it.

I really wish the buyers had better AI though. They're programmed so badly that they don't even act on their own stated likes and dislikes, and why the devs don't at least fix the most glaring issues is beyond me; it's not like there is a complex programmatic system behind it. That just really ticks me off. Yeah, yeah, work on your DLCs, we get that you need to make a living. But for heaven's sake, fix obvious super-annoying bugs too. This game could be SO much better if you did that.

Btw, SericaRose, your guide helped me get started really well -- thanks so much!

[SericaRose]

That might be my guide. Very happy for you. The English Garden is fun, isn't it.