Selling your home in or near Clackamas County? Contact Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's practically impossible for them to fully grasp real estate market forces.

We are not talking about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want for it. Rather, the appraisal measures your home's market value.

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

Selling on your own?

An increasing amount of OR 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 to get the most you can, you need a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, it's very hard 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 astute asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while negotiating 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 last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Help decrease the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

It can be surprising to people when they find out that their home's value is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they could have gotten originally. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated impression when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

Even if you're working with an extremely talented agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Let Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate summarizing of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving OR with the highest quality real estate consulting services

Not sure if you 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 still want some help analyzing local property and sales data. We have services designed for the needs of clients like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

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

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will give you personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be delighted to provide suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Swift turnarounds for appraisals: Normally in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed many of assignments, and we understand that when providing real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" report. We provide quite a few different of types of reports, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients minus the so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a prompt follow-up from Willamette Valley Appraisal Professionals: Our reports are written in plain English, understandable, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!