Getting an appraisal from Stewart Valuation Intelligence before putting your Johnson County home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to get a handle on their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

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

Going to sell your home yourself?

More and more KS homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, quickly and for top dollar, you need a expert appraiser. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of 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:

  • Be a very useful bargaining tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Call attention to any problems and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Prevent the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to flop

Folks are sometimes surprised to discover their home's value is more than they originally believed. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they originally expected. Others have an an exaggerated impression when they put a value on their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than gathering dust on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Pre-listing appraisals in Overland Park

You might have a very skillful agent but it's in your best interest to get an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where Stewart Valuation Intelligence comes in. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a detailed description for your property and its features and give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Someone to ask for for local real estate knowledge

Have you decided against an entire 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 some help gathering local property and sales data. We have services tailored especially for customers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

After you order an appraisal report through , you can expect....

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a immediate response: We personalize information to the needs of our customers We'll be delighted to give you suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Fast turnarounds for appraisals: Normally in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've done many of assignments, and we understand that when it comes real estateconsulting and appraising there is no typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We offer a variety of report types, and are skilled at providing appraisals to consumers without so much of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from Stewart Valuation Intelligence: When we write reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries dealing your appraisal, once you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!