Getting an appraisal from Martins Appraisals before putting your Westminster home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider 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 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. Rather, 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 on your own?

An increasing amount of MD homeowners are deciding 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 the best price, what you need is a qualified appraiser. You need 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 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 asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Give you an advantage while bargaining once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might stall a closing
  • Lower the possibility of unknown problems that cause sales to deteriorate

It can be surprising to people when they find out that the value of their home is a great deal more than they thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal allowed them to get thousands more than they thought they would get. Others have an an inflated impression when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of 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 comprehensive appraisal before listing

You might have a highly skilled agent but it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where Martins Appraisals comes in. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a complete breakdown 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.

Someone to ask for for local real estate knowledge

Not sure if you need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require some help gathering local property and sales data. We can be a resource for your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for consumers with your real estate needs.

If your wondering what to expect from us when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We personalize information to the needs of our customers Just let us know your situation and we will make suggestions.
  • Fast turnarounds on appraisals: Typically 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 preformed a lot of assignments, and we know that when providing real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We provide a variety of types of reports, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Fast response to follow-up questions: Reports we create are clearly written, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions dealing your appraisal, after you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!