Real estate: with heat, this development makes the value of your property jump by 20%

High floor, clear view, elevator … These various equipment increase the value of your property. Another makes it climb by 20%!

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While the heat wave in recent days has continued in the south-east of the country this Friday, July 4, and summer is just beginning, you look at your garden with other eyes. What if you joined the list of 3.5 million owners of a swimming pool? A number that makes France the First European swimming pool market And the second world, behind the United States, according to the better real estate estimation site. What brakes on you is the cost of such an investment, as is the case for half of the people interviewed by OpinionWay on behalf of the Waterair pool manufacturer, as part of a survey published on July 2.

An investment that two thirds of the respondents assess between 15,000 and 30,000 euros For a 25 square meter buried swimming pool. Bingo! “This estimate is realistic”confirms Waterair. Note that at this initial cost is added an increase in your property tax, the installation of a swimming pool (buried, non-removable above-ground or more than 10 square meters requiring a declaration of work) inflating the cadastral rental value of your property, on which the calculation of this local tax is based. Without forgetting the maintenance fees swimming pool (water, cleaning products, electricity), valued at around 400 euros per year by Desjoyaux pools.

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Real estate capital gain from 16% to 20% thanks to a swimming pool

But if you have the means, the game is worth the candle, with a view to resale. What most households interviewed by OpinionWay do not seem to be aware. When the Institute asks them how much they consider it Real estate capital gain Linked to the presence of a swimming pool, a third cites the figure of 10%. Only 12% of respondents answer “20%”which corresponds to “The real effect” From a swimming pool on the value of a property, confirms Waterair. In a study published in 2022, BestAgents indicated that at equivalent characteristics, a house or an apartment with swimming pool sells for an average of 16% more than a good without a pool.

A capital gain that is 18% in the case of a house. “The swimming pools within residences are less valued by resale because they are shared between the neighbors»»explained better agents. While stressing that, unlike a house, “Construction and maintenance costs are covered by all the co -owners”.

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Kit swimming pools to reduce the construction cost

Certainly, “The construction of an buried swimming pool represents a significant cost but it is common for the added value it generates is greater than these costs”ensures better agents. For example, a house of 95 square meters, bought 2,165 euros per square meter, a total price of 205,675 euros, will be able to see its value jump of 40,107 euros on average, thanks to the construction of a buried swimming pool of a budget of 15,000 euros, details the real estate estimation site. Or a capital gain, clear of the cost of construction, 25,000 euros.

A cost of construction that swimming pools, such as Waterair, Desjoyaux or Aboral Piscines swimming pools strive to reduce, via kit assembly solutions. “It is thus possible toSave up to 50 % on the price “says Jacques Braun, president of Waterair.