Appraisal services for home sellers - Mike Pereira

Getting an appraisal from Mike Pereira before putting your Orange County home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays you in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want for it. Instead, the appraisal measures your home's market value.

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

More and more CA homeowners are choosing 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 to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult 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 realistic asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very beneficial bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
Prevent the chances of unrevealed problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

People are surprised when they find out their home's value is a great deal more than they thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they originally thought. Others have an an inflated opinion of their home's value, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it instead of gathering dust on the market for months. An overpriced home rarely attracts 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 Rancho Santa Margarita

You might have a highly experienced agent but it's definitely a good idea to have of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Mike Pereira comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the latest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Someone to ask for for local real estate knowledge

Not sure if you need an entire appraisal but would like some information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help analyzing local sales and property data. We can be a resource for your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

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

Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We personalize information to the needs of our clients Just tell us 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, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a lot of assignments, and we've learned that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" assignment. We provide a variety of report types, and have a lot of experience at providing appraisals to clients without so much of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
Any follow up questions? You can expect a prompt follow-up from Mike Pereira: Reports we create are written in plain English, easy to understand, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!