Getting an appraisal from Baybrooke Appraisal before putting your home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're planning on putting your house on the market soon, an appraisal is a step in the right direction. Don't think of an appraisal as purely an expense; it pays you in the long run! Unless a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to get a handle on local real estate values.

You're probably, as a homeowner, fixated on how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, the appraisal measures how much your home will bring on the open market. At the end of the day, your house is only going to sell for what another person is willing to pay.

Contact us for information regarding the specific services for home sellers we offer.

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

Quite a few Missouri homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, quickly and for top dollar, you need a skilled appraiser. It can be very difficult to get an objective opinion, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to take an objective look at 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 sensible asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:
  • Be a very useful negotiating tool when you find 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 get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to backslide
People are surprised when they find out that the value of their home is much more than they thought. So taking the first step and investing in a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they could have originally gotten. Alternatively, some people have an exaggerated assessment of the value of their home, and an appraisal gave them the assistance they needed in order to set a more reasonable price for their home in order for it to sell quickly - instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Asking too much for a home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting your valuable time and draining your resources while you're in Real Estate "limbo".

Get a professional value opinion before listing

You might have a very skilled agent, but it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value before finalizing a listing contract. Baybrooke Appraisal can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in a scenario like this. You and your agent will get a complete breakdown for your property and its features and give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.