Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Morris Appraisal will ensure you get it right.

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

This isn't a discussion of how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Rather, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

Contact us for information regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Appraisals are valuable tools for homeowners selling without an agent

An increasing amount of MO homeowners are making the decision 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, you need a skilled appraiser. You need objective opinions, it can be very 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 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 negotiating when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
  • Call attention to any problems and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Decrease the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to deteriorate

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out that their home's value is higher than they first thought. So spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get thousands more than they could have gotten originally. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression of their home's value, by getting an appraisal it 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 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 Jackson County

Even if you're working with a very skillful agent, it's in your best interest to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where Morris Appraisal comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate description of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the latest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

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

Don't 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 need assistance analyzing local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

Here's what to expect when you order an appraisal through us....

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a fast response: We personalize information to the needs of our clients We'll be more then happy to offer suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Quick turnarounds on appraisals: Usually one week 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 arrangements that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a large amount of assignments, and we've learned that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising there is no typical or standard, "boiler place" assignment. We provide many different of types of reports, and are well seasoned at providing appraisals to consumers sans the in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Fast to follow-up questions: Documents we deliver are clearly written, understandable, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion about your appraisal, after you've read the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!