In Cherry Hills, landscape attention adds value coming out of a drought

In a market where mortgage rates are still creeping up (the Fed bumped up the benchmark by a quarter-point Wednesday), buyers are even more sensitive about getting everything perfect before they sign a contract.

“They don’t have extra money for projects after they purchase,” said Compass agent Coleen Sanders, who has a house in the Mansfield Heights area of Cherry Hills Village that she’s readied to steer clear of those issues.

Larger home site

“You don’t have to touch anything,” Sanders said of her five-bedroom listing at 3901 S. Cherry St. in Cherry Hills — a rare two-story plan for this neighborhood but with a main-floor primary suite. It’s in one of the earlier developed areas of the Village, where the street dead-ends into the High Line Canal and its popular 71-mile-long trail.

Homes run larger, as do their sites (this one approaches a third of an acre), something that Sanders said puts added importance on landscaping…

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