Do ponds tend to put off house buyers or reduce house value?

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I just been looking at articles online which are conflicting. Some say they increase value and some say they reduce value.

Maybe because it doesn’t work with astroturf or something.

I had no idea a pond was off putting.

DB used to love our pond when we was about 8-10. He and the other boys in the road used to spend a lot of time watching it. Even when he was a baby he loved an aquarium of fish too.

Next door's cats used to drink from the pond.

My friend has a gorgeous landscaped garden with a massive pond containing large koi as the centrepiece. It is very relaxing.

Having said all that, DB fell in a friend's pond when he was about 4. He was probably watching all the fish and insects and leant over too much.

I love a natural pond but would be very wary with young children

Our house had a large pond (45ft x 12 ft) when we bought it. The first year, we discovered it leaked, so we made it into a smaller pond and filled in the leaking end. It was fun to watch, but the herons came for breakfast every morning. The fish (koi) bred every year, we had thousands so we were always trying to give them away. The dogs learned to climb in and out fast. The waterlilies I wanted didn't thrive, perhaps unsurprisingly. Algal blooms were a problem in hot summers.

When we had DC, we put a solid metal fence around it, but it was deep enough for splashing in once kids were old enough to swim and climb out unaided. It was great for wildlife as we had frogs, newts and toads plus damsel and dragon flies. But eventually DH got fed up of the time and expense involved in keeping the filtration systems clean and it was filled in and laid to lawn. Several hundred tons of topsoil had to be moved for that.