Artificial grass - pro or con when buying a property?

This was also discussed on a Radio 4..(no idea what program it was)
They got a spoke person /Estate agent from some organisation in and they said they would not be listing it sperate item, or no one has ever asked for it to be removed prior to putting in an offer.
They also doubt anyone would reduce the house price.

I can’t say I like it, and certainly want it myself, but I can well understand people with children who want to play out in most weathers installing it. Otherwise you just end up with a sea of mud - TBH dd and SiL’s ‘lawn’ (3 young dcs) is much like this by the end of winter.

A friend of a dd installed it in one of those very narrow urban gardens which just didn’t get much sun - and she had two very little ones wanting to play outside. Real grass would never have flourished and paving would have been much too hard a surface.

We have a rental flat with a tiddly little garden which I’d had beautifully renovated (from a jungle) with beds and a very small but ‘proper’ lawn.
Alas after 9 years the otherwise excellent tenants just hadn’t looked after it - it was past saving - so we very reluctantly replaced it with top grade artificial. They wanted something done, and it was the wrong time of year for turf or seed.

Current tenants really appreciate the garden.

It's a no from me.

Terrible. Bad for the soil.and for wildlife.

Awful stuff don't even think about it.

Nasty stuff.

It still needs to be looked after but I agree not to the same extent.

In sunshine, the grass can become very hot and burn an animal's paws. The Cat Protection League told me that.

I hate the stuff however if you are letting a property and the tenants are unlikely to manage a lawn or pay a gardener then at least it looks tidy.

It’s a no from me.

One AC has a large garden and the GC’s section has artificial grass so that they can use it all year round. It will be removed and proper grass laud when they no longer need swings, slides, playhouses etc.