Be an informed seller. Get an appraisal from Point Appraisal.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to fully grasp local real estate values.

We are not talking about how much you have invested in your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

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

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

Quite a few MT 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, quickly and to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. The best thing to have is objective opinions, and we understand that it's 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 so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very helpful bargaining tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help lower the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to deteriorate

It can be surprising to people when they find out that their home's value is more than they originally believed. So spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they could have gotten originally. Others have an an exaggerated impression of the value of their home, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than sitting on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a professional value opinion before listing

Even if you have with the most experienced agent, it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. Point Appraisal can help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a definitive writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

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

Don't need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about the health of your area's real estate? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you need some help collecting local sales and property data. We have services tailored especially for customers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

After you order an appraisal report from us, 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 thrilled to give you suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Swift turnaround time: 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.
  • Appraisal and consulting report formats that suit YOUR needs: We've done quite a few of assignments, and we've learned that in the business of real estateappraising there is no typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We offer quite a few different of types of reports, and are familiar 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.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a fast follow-up from Point Appraisal: Our reports are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!