Appraisal services for home sellers - Hughes Home Appraisals

Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Hughes Home Appraisals 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 a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's practically impossible for them to understand their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

More and more OH homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult 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.

In addition to helping you set a astute selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very useful negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Alert you of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
Help lower the chances of hidden problems that cause sales to fall through

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out the value of their home is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they originally expected. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated assessment of their home's value, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it instead of gathering dust on the market for months. An overpriced home rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Get a professional value opinion before listing

Even if you're working with an extremely talented agent, it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Hughes Home Appraisals comes in. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in this scenario. You and agent will get a detailed description for your property and its features which will give you insight into how the local real estate market is performing with a detailed analysis of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Hughes Home Appraisals also provide general consulting

Don't need an entire appraisal but would like some information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you still want assistance analyzing local property and sales data. We can be a resource for your real estate quandaries with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

Here's what you can expect when you order an appraisal through us....

Fast response to your initial inquiry: We will provide you with personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be thrilled to give you suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
Quick turnaround time: Usually one week or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've done a large amount of assignments, and we understand that practice of real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" assignment. We provide quite a few different of types of reports, and are experts at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
Quick response to follow-up questions: Our reports are written in plain English, easy to understand, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion dealing your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!