Usually yes, but the payoff is set by your neighborhood, so check the comps before you build. In much of Southern California, buyers expect a garage for parking, storage, or ADU-conversion potential, and its absence comes up constantly in buyer questions. In plenty of rural areas, homes routinely have no garage and buyers there don't blink. Same improvement, very different payoff. So run a quick comp check. Look at recent sales of similar homes near you with and without a garage and see what the gap really is. A useful rule of thumb: if the large majority of homes around you have garages, adding one likely brings you in line with the market and adds real value. If garages are the exception where you live, the value-add is much less certain. Set expectations on return, too. Improvements like this rarely pay back dollar for dollar. A $50,000 garage might add something closer to $30,000 at resale, so part of what you're buying is your own use and enjoyment. If the space improves how you live in the home and roughly tracks the neighborhood norm, it's usually a sound move. If you're building purely to profit at resale, run that math first.