Appraisal services for home sellers - C L Harper & Associates

Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from C L Harper & Associates will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is a must. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays you in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to fully grasp real estate market forces.

This isn't a discussion of the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses how much your home will bring on the open market.

Selling on your own?

An increasing amount of TX homeowners are making the decision 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 for top dollar, you need a skilled appraiser. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to take an objective look at own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

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

Be a very useful bargaining tool when you find a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Make you aware of problems and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
Lower the chances of unknown problems that cause sales to fall through

It can be surprising to people to discover their home's value is more than they originally believed. So by taking the first step and investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they could have gotten originally. Others have an an overestimated opinion of their home's value, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Nueces County

You might have an extremely skilled agent but it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Let C L Harper & Associates help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving TX with the greatest real estate consulting services

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

Here's what to expect when you place an order for an appraisal from us....

Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients Just tell us your situation and give you suggestions.
Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Usually in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Consulting and Appraisal report formats that suit YOUR needs: We've done quite a few of assignments, and we know that in the art of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "generic" report. We provide a variety of report types, and have know how 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.
Fast reply to follow-up questions: Reports we write 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. Should you have any questions regarding your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!