Want to know your home’s real value?
Instead of a robot and an algorithm, we use our experience and up-to-date MLS data*
*Your report will be prepared by a human being, and due to that, it won't be "instant", but it will be accurate.
Sell Your Biggest Investment with Little Stress
3 Easy Steps
Step 1:
Provide Your Address & Details
The most important information we need is your address. We'll also need the best contact information for us to send the report to.
Step 2:
We Get To Work
REALTORS® have spent millions of dollars to develop the MLS and other technologies to help us track current market data. We use these tools along with the knowledge of your neighborhood and your home’s unique features, to calculate an estimated home value.
Step 3:
Your Report Is Ready!
We'll send over your accurate home value report as soon as possible. Even if you're not planning on selling anytime soon, knowing the value can help you plan for the future.
How accurate are Zillow home estimates?
This is the one question REALTORS® most often get from consumers.
Sites like Zillow have great potential to empower buyers and sellers. Where once the world of comparable sales and real estate values was understood only by real estate agents, now everyday buyers and sellers can learn useful information about area properties, including their own. While these tools can certainly prove handy, using them can give you unreliable information. We understand the importance of comparing homes in the same area, but we also know many other factors that can increase/decrease that number that are not included in the “algorithm.”
"We encourage buyers, sellers, and homeowners to supplement Zillow's information by doing other research such as getting a comparative market analysis (CMA) from a real estate agent"
How does Zillow calculate my home's value?
That's the million dollar question (literally). Zillow actually had a contest awarding $1M to whoever can improve their algorithm. Here's an exact quote on how they explain their calculations.
"We use proprietary automated valuation models that apply advanced algorithms to analyze our data to identify relationships within a specific geographic area, between this home-related data and actual sales prices."
Confusing, right? We get it. Getting an "instant" home value is appealing. Not having to talk to someone is appealing, but there's a cost to that approach. Instant doesn't mean accurate. When something is as important as the value of your home, accuracy matters more.
How do we determine your home's value?
While these free valuations will help you get a general idea, remember, it's just a ballpark figure. For a more accurate estimate, there’s no substitute for the expertise of a real estate agent. There are hundreds of factors that we take into consideration when estimating your home's value, and no two reports are the same.
We first take a look at your address. This allows us to see how much neighboring homes have sold for, the desirability of the neighborhood you live in, unique features of your home and the surrounding geographical area, and many more factors. After we have a good idea of what that looks like, we then go more in-depth with our research, including checking the condition of your home, taking into consideration any updates you've made that could make it worth more than your neighbor's. All of this is done by a human being. None of our home value reports run on an algorithm, and this information isn't available to us or you at the push of a button.
The dangers of overpricing your home.
The process of selling a home can be an emotional roller coaster, one that many people are not adequately prepared for. What your home means to you, and what you imagine it to be, must come to terms with the real world of the current real estate market.
If you’re like most people we meet with, you think the longer your home stays on the market, the more offers will come in, creating competition, resulting in the highest offer possible. Wrong. The longer your home stays on the market, the less likely it will sell for asking price (or above). You are putting your home on the market to sell it. Everything you do in the listing and selling process is meant to accomplish this goal. The price the market will bear is the most important factor in the sale of your home. There is an ideal time frame to sell your home, and it usually falls within the first few months that your home is on the market.
Having an accurate, and more importantly, realistic pricing strategy from the start is how your home will be sold for the most money and quickly. You don’t want to price your home too low and neither do we. But you also don’t want to let it sit on the market for too long.