Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of real estate market forces.

This isn't a discussion of the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

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

Going to sell your home yourself?

Quite a few OR homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, you need a skilled appraiser. The best thing to have is 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 tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

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

  • Be a very useful negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Make you aware of problems and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help lower the odds of unrevealed problems that cause sales to fall through

It can be surprising to people to discover the value of their home is much more than they thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they could have gotten originally. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression of their home's value, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Clackamas County

Even if you're working with the most experienced agent, it's definitely a good idea to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. You and agent will get a detailed description of your property and its features which will give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a detailed analysis of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Sometimes it's useful to have a general resource for local real estate knowledge

Don't need a full appraisal but still need some information about the health of your area's real estate? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you'd still like assistance collecting local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate quandaries with services especially tailored for consumers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what to expect when you order an appraisal through us....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will provide you with information tailored for your individual appraisal need. Just explain your situation and give you suggestions.
  • Swift turnaround time: Typically one week or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've worked on a large amount of assignments, and we know that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We provide quite a few different of report types, and are skilled at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a prompt follow-up from Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals: Reports we write are written in plain English, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!