Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Canter Fields Real Estate, LLC will ensure you get it right.

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

We are not talking about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home. At the end of the day, your house is only worth the price another person is going to give you.

Contact us for any questions regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Appraisals are valuable tools for people selling without an agent

Quite a few Maryland homeowners are choosing 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 to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need an objective opinion, it can be very hard 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 will getting a professional appraisal help you set a sound selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:
  • Be a very beneficial bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Help decrease the odds of unrevealed problems that cause sales to backslide
Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out that the value of their home is higher than they originally thought. So taking the first step and investing in an appraisal allowed them to receive thousands more than they could have originally gotten. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated opinion of the value of their home, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price for their home in order for it to sell quickly - instead of sitting 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 your home sits on the market.

Pre-listing appraisals in Accokeek

Even if you have an extremely talented agent, it's in your best interest to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Let Canter Fields Real Estate, LLC help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise writeup of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the most recent and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

We also offer general consulting

Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help analyzing local property and sales data. We offer services designed especially for customers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

If you're curious what you can expect from us when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

  • Fast response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients. Just explain your situation, and we will give you suggestions.
  • Fast turnaround on appraisals: Usually in a week's time or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a PDF of the report ready to download.
  • Consulting and appraisal report presentations that suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, one size does NOT fit all. We provide quite a few different types of reports and are skilled at providing appraisals to clients sans the industry jargon and in an easy to digest format with consumers in mind.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a prompt response from Canter Fields Real Estate, LLC: Reports we create are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any questions regarding your appraisal once you've read the report, we encourage you to email or call us!