A good education can change lives, but here is someone who adds that a quality public school can also improve your property value.
Top Notch Public Schools Add $1 Million in Property Value
By Chris Kolmar
A high-quality private school is extraordinarily expensive. We are talking numbers similar to tuition for a top 5 college or university; $33,708/year on average, based mostly on 2010-2011
tuition figures (which are only higher now, due to inflation). So how does that translate into property value?“Leveled Classroom Library” by LizMarie_AK/CC/flickr
Well, the ultra-low cost solution to private school is–I bet you guessed it–public school. And because private schools are so stupidly expensive, people are willing to pay more for a home in a good public school district so that they can get an equivalent education for their children at 0% of the cost.
A home buyer can afford to pay more for a house if they don’t have to pay for school.
The extra demand causes homes values to rise in areas with great public schools, because more people want to live there. All parents know this. School districts are important when thinking about the location, location, location of real estate.
We wanted to know by exactly how much a quality public school can affect home prices. So we went to the drawing board.
Two Kids, A Dog, and $1,000,000 More for a Mortgage
Two key assumptions:
Assumption 1: Each child goes to private school their whole life, which makes schooling a fixed cost for the entire period of time owners live in their home.
Assumption 2: Assume all that school money can go directly to a mortgage. No increase in property taxes or whatnot.And the math:
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