Selling your home in or near Santa Cruz County? Contact Mike Doyle and make sure you're setting the price 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 a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

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

Selling on your own?

Quite a few CA 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, you need a qualified appraiser. You need objective opinions, 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.

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

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Alert you of problems and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Help lower the chances of unknown problems that cause sales to flop

It can be surprising to people when they find out the value of their home is higher than they originally thought. So investing in a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they originally thought. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it instead of sitting 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

Pre-listing appraisals in Santa Cruz County

Even if you're working with a very skillful agent, it's definitely a good idea to have of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Mike Doyle can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. You and agent will get a complete breakdown of the unique features of your property which will give you insight into how the local real estate market is performing with a record of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Serving Santa Cruz County with the very best real estate consulting services

Not wanting to get a full appraisal but are looking for information about how real estate is doing in your area? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require assistance collecting local sales and property data. We offer services designed especially for consumers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

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

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We tailor information to the needs of our customers We'll be delighted to offer suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Fast turnaround time: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed many of assignments, and we know that whether it's real estateappraising there isn't a typical or standard, "generic" report. We provide quite a few different of report types, and are skilled 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.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a fast follow-up from Mike Doyle: Reports we write are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions about your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!