Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from SGC Appraisal, LLC will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; 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 hard for them to fully grasp their local real estate market.

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

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

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

An increasing amount of WA 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 for top dollar, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult 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.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a realistic selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Call attention to any issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Help decrease the odds of unrevealed problems that cause sales to deteriorate

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they expected they would get. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression of the value of their home, by getting an appraisal it gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of waiting on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract 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 King County

You may have a very skillful agent but it's in your best interest to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where SGC Appraisal, LLC comes in. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in a scenario like this. It will give both you and your agent a complete breakdown of your property and its features which will give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.

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

Not wanting to get an entire appraisal but are looking for information about the health of your area's real estate? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require assistance collecting local sales and property data. We can help solve your real estate decisions with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what to expect when you place an order for an appraisal from ....

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will give you information tailored for your particular appraisal need. Just let us know your situation and we will make suggestions.
  • Swift turnaround time: Usually in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a 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 offer a lot of different of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients without a lot of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Quick reply to follow-up questions: When we write reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, easy to understand, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries about your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!