Selling your home in or near Yakima County? Contact Appraisal Associates and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want for it. Instead, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

Contact us for details regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

An increasing amount of WA 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 top dollar, what you need is a qualified appraiser. You need objective opinions, it's very hard 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.

Not only will getting a professional appraisal help you set a sensible selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might stall a closing
  • Decrease the odds of hidden problems that cause sales to backslide

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out the value of their home is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for thousands more than they could have gotten originally. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated impression of the value of 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. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

We also help agents price homes in Yakima County

Even if you're working with the most experienced agent, it's definitely a good idea to have of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Appraisal Associates can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a comprehensive description for your property and its features and give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a detailed analysis of the latest comparable properties in the area.

We also provide general consulting

Don't need an entire appraisal but still need some information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require some help collecting local property and sales data. We offer services designed especially for customers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you order an appraisal through us....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a prompt response: We tailor information to the needs of our clients Just tell us your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Swift turnarounds for appraisals: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've done many of assignments, and we know that in the art of real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" report. We offer quite a few different of report types, and have a lot of experience at providing appraisals to clients without so much of industry jargon in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from Appraisal Associates: When we deliver a report to our clients, we make sure they are clearly written, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions about your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!