Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Thompson Appraisal 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's worth the money in the long run! Unless the homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for any questions regarding the specific services we offer for home sellers.

Going to sell your home yourself?

Quite a few IL homeowners are deciding 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, quickly and for top dollar, you need a professional appraisal. The best thing to have is 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 inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

In addition to helping you set a sensible selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very valuable negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Alert you of problems and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help prevent the chances of unrevealed problems that cause sales to backslide

It can be surprising to people when they find out the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So by taking the first step and investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to get thousands more than they expected they would get. Others have an an inflated assessment of their home's value, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than gathering dust 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 Marion County

Even if you have with the most experienced agent, it's in your best interest to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Let Thompson Appraisal help. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a complete description for your property and its features and give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.

Thompson Appraisal also provide general consulting

Not sure if you need a full appraisal but still need some information about the health of your area's real estate? If you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require assistance collecting local property and sales data. We offer services designed especially for customers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

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

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients Just explain your situation and we will make suggestions.
  • Swift turnaround time: Typically 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 that suit YOUR needs: We've worked on a lot of assignments, and we know that in the art of real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" assignment. We offer a lot of different of types of reports, and have an abundance of experience at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Prompt to follow-up questions: Our reports are written in plain English, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions regarding your appraisal, once you've read the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!