Selling your home in or near Los Angeles County? Contact Collins Real Estate Appraisals and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like an appraiser, it's difficult for them to get a handle on real estate market forces.

We are not talking about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Rather, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

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

Selling on your own?

Quite a few CA homeowners are making the decision 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, with minimal waiting and for top dollar, you need a expert 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.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a realistic asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while negotiating once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
  • Call attention to any problems and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Prevent the possibility of unidentified problems that cause sales to deteriorate

People are surprised when they find out their home's value is much more than they thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal allowed them to receive thousands more than they expected they would get. Others have an an overestimated assessment of the value of their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than sitting on the market for months. An overpriced home rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Los Angeles County

Even if you have with a very skilled agent, it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Let Collins Real Estate Appraisals 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 features and a detailed analysis of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Collins Real Estate Appraisals also offer general consulting

Don't need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about the real estate market in your area? If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help gathering local sales and property data. We can be a resource for your real estate dilemmas with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

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

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will provide you with personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be thrilled to offer suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, "One size does NOT fit all." We provide a lot of different of report types, and have an abundance of experience 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 Collins Real Estate Appraisals: When we deliver a report to our clients, we make sure they are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, once you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!