In late July, HGTV’s “Bang for Your Buck” swooped into Austin to film three outdoor living spaces.

The show, which will air this month, compares the three $95,000 remodels. Show designer Monica Pedersen and local real estate agent Jason Hill of Austin City Living will determine which homeowners got the most in resale value for their money. The show is on Fridays at 8:30.

The three sets of homeowners don’t know the results yet, but during the filming, they did watch some of Pedersen’s and Hill’s feedback. Then the show filmed some of the homeowners’ reactions.

The three properties are all very different, Hill says. They are all very beautiful, he says, but “when you looked at return on investment, there was some question raised.”

Hill, who has been selling real estate since 2006 and whom you might know as a former anchor of KVUE’s morning news, cannot disclose the winner, but he does say it was close.

“Sometimes you are surprised at how the numbers come back,” he says. “But just because you spent a lot of money, it may not be the greatest thing when you go to sell the house.”(...)
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