Appraisal services for home sellers - Accurity T.J. McCarthy & Associates, Ltd

Getting an appraisal from Accurity T.J. McCarthy & Associates, Ltd before putting your Cook County home on the market saves you time and money.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in an appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays you in the long run! Unless the homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand the nuances of 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. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market.

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

An increasing amount of IL homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and for the best price, you need a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, it can be very hard 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.

In addition to helping you set a realistic asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very useful bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
Alert you of issues and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
Help prevent the chances of hidden problems that cause sales to deteriorate

It can be surprising to people to discover the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So by taking the first step and spending a little on a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they could have gotten originally. Others have an an overestimated impression when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than waiting 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

You may have a very talented agent but it's in your best interest to have an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where Accurity T.J. McCarthy & Associates, Ltd comes in. An appraisal can be indispensable in a scenario like this. It will give both you and your agent a complete description of the unique features of your property 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 wanting to get a full appraisal but still need some information about how real estate is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you require assistance collecting local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate concerns with services especially tailored for consumers with your real estate needs.

When you order an appraisal report from us, expect the following....

We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We personalize information to the needs of our customers We'll be more then happy to provide suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
Fast turnarounds on appraisals: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a large amount of assignments, and we've learned that when providing real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" report. We offer many different of report types, and are experts at providing appraisals to consumers minus the so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
Quick response to follow-up questions: When we write reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!