Value Added, Value Gained...

It is important to select the right landscape company for your project to ensure that value added is value gained. Our experienced landscape professional's appliqué site solutions onto landscapes and respond creatively to the nuances of each site. With careful front-end planning, Falcon Landscapes provides professional custom designs elevating every project we undertake to its highest potential.

We provide vision for contouring a project by optimizing existing site features and making each of our designs aesthetically beautiful, water and energy efficient and compatible with the lay of the land.

Here are just a few of the ways that we can help.

Utilizing existing architectural features, we design our projects to maximize views and reduce energy costs by creating shade on sunny areas of your home. Incorporating low-impact technologies such as native plant materials and permeable pavers serve to help manage on-site water and encourage infiltration which is less expensive than high-maintenance landscaping.

Spending on landscape design and installation has more than tripled in the past five years, hitting $14.3 billion in 2002. And no wonder–it offers the best return on investment of any home improvement you can make. - Money Magazine

Landscaping may significantly reduce your energy bills. Carefully positioned trees can save up to 25% of a typical household's energy for heating and cooling. Computer models from DOE predict that just three trees, properly placed around the house, can save an average household between $100 and $250 in heating and cooling energy costs annually… U.S. Department of Energy

Landscaping can reduce air conditioning costs by up to 50 percent, by shading the windows and walls of a home. - American Public Power Association

Spending 5 percent of the total value of your home on landscaping, and doing it wisely, you can add 15 percent or more to the value of your home. - This Old House Magazine

"Landscaping could add up to 15 percent to a home’s value. National Association of Realtors President-Elect, Walt McDonald of Riverside, Calif., was quoted in the article as saying, “When people ask me how they can get strong interest in their property, I always tell them to fix up their landscaping.” - Smart Money

Landscape investments are recovered fully, and sometimes doubled, via increasing real estate values. - Wall Street Journal

When Americans want to enhance their homes, they focus on the outdoors. In a recent Gallup research project, homebuyers revealed they think landscaping adds 14.87 percent to a home's selling price. In another survey, Money magazine reported that landscaping as a home-improvement project has a recovery value of 100 to 200 percent if it is well done and harmonizes with nearby foliage. Real estate agents agree. Ninety-five percent of the members of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers concur that landscaping adds to the dollar value of real estate, while 99 percent said that landscaping enhances property's "sales appeal," increasing the actual speed of the sale. - Lawn & Landscape

Landscaping can bring a recovery value of 100 to 200 percent at selling time. Kitchen remodeling brings a 75 to 125 percent recovery rate, bathroom remodeling a 20 to 120 percent recovery rate, and addition of a swimming pool a 20 to 50 percent recovery rate. - Money Magazine

Homes with "excellent" landscaping can expect a sale price about 6 to 7 percent higher than equivalent houses with "good" landscaping, while improving landscaping from "average" to "good" can result in a 4 to 5 percent increase. - Clemson University

Landscaping can add between 7 and 15 percent to a home's value. The Gallup Organization

According to the American Society of Landscape Architects, surveys show that a well-designed landscape will raise the property value 10 percent to 30 percent. Such landscapes appreciate in value over a lifetime, adding significantly to the beauty, comfort and financial desirability of the property. - American Society of Landscape Architects

Those trees in your yard provide more than just shade. According to a recent study by the U.S. Forest Service, trees can increase a home's value by three to seven percent. Meanwhile, poor landscape design can actually decrease property values by up to 10-percent according to a 1994 study published in the Journal of Environmental Horticulture. - Miami Herald, Realtor Magazine Online and Money

Homes with nice landscaping are likely to see sale prices that are 4 percent to 5 percent higher compared to similar properties in the neighborhood. Homes with landscapes that are not as nice as others in the neighborhood could see sales prices that are 8 percent to 10 percent lower. Eighty-four percent of the real estate agents interviewed for the study said a house with trees would be as much as 20 percent more salable than a house without trees. - The International Society of Arboriculture

Falcon Landscapes

With over 12 years combined experience in creating exciting one-of-a-kind landscape designs, Falcon Landscapes can create the perfect outdoor environment for you. Falcon has provided Inspired Alfresco Design to our clients ranging from multi-million dollar residences in the Scottsdale and Gold Canyon foothills to small scale intimate residential landscape designs.