Does a New Garage Door Help You Sell Your Home?
It is the largest single thing a buyer sees from the street, and it is the one improvement that has consistently returned more than it cost.
What the numbers actually say
Zonda publishes an annual Cost vs. Value Report comparing what a home improvement costs against what it adds to resale value. In the most recent edition, a garage door replacement cost an average of $4,672 and added $12,507 at resale — a return of 267.7%, the highest-return home improvement project in America for the second consecutive year.1
Those are national averages, not a promise about your house. What they are good for is the comparison: very few things you can do to a home come close, and most of the ones people reach for first do considerably worse.
What we would actually tell you
If you are selling and the door still runs quietly and looks its age rather than older, leave it. A tidy, working door photographs fine and a buyer will not think about it, which is the point.
Replace it when it is the thing the eye goes to — peeling panels, mismatched sections, a door that groans its way up while an agent is standing there. That is when the figures above start applying to you rather than to a national average.
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We will give you the price before we start, and it will not change once you have it.
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