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Mar 2020
17m 29s

How to raise the value of your home

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$500 spent on making improvements to your home could add more than $10,000 to its value! Finance journalist and business owner David ‘Kochie’ Koch explains the small changes you should make to your home if you want to add value to it, what you need to know if you’re doing the repairs yourself and how to get the best from the tradies and architects you’ve hired.

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