Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Hope Appraisals, LLC will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of local real estate values.

This isn't a discussion of the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for details regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

More and more MD homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. The best thing to have is objective opinions, and we understand that it can be very difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while negotiating once you have a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Decrease the possibility of unrevealed problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out that their home's value is higher than they originally thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on a professional appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they could have gotten originally. Others have an an inflated opinion when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Montgomery County

You may have a very skillful agent but it's in your best interest to get of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Hope Appraisals, LLC comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a definitive summarizing of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Hope Appraisals, LLC also are available for general consulting

Don't need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you still want some help gathering local sales and property data. We can help solve your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you order an appraisal through ....

  • Fast response to your initial inquiry: We will give you information tailored for your individual appraisal need. Just tell us your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Swift turnarounds for appraisals: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a lot of assignments, and we know that practice of real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" report. We provide a variety of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients without a lot of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Quick response to follow-up questions: When we create reports, we make sure they are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries dealing your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!