Selling your home in or near Des Moines County? Contact Carol Huffman and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's practically impossible for them to fully grasp real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on your home's market value.

Contact us for details regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Appraisals are valuable tools for people selling without an agent

An increasing amount of IA 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 expert appraiser. You need 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.

In addition to helping you set a astute selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very useful negotiating tool while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Lower the chances of unidentified problems that cause sales to deteriorate

It can be surprising to people when they find out their home's value is a great deal more than they thought. So spending a little on a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they expected they would get. Others have an an exaggerated assessment of their home's value, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of sitting on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Des Moines County

Even if you're working with a very skillful agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. Carol Huffman can help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the latest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving IA with unsurpassed real estate consulting services

Not sure if you need a full appraisal but would like some information about the health of your area's real estate? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you still want some help gathering local property and sales data. We have services designed especially for consumers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

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

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our customers Just let us know your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed many of assignments, and we know that when providing real estateappraising there is no typical or standard, "generic" assignment. We provide quite a few different of report types, and are experts at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Fast to follow-up questions: When we deliver a report to our clients, we make sure they are clearly written, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!