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

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 in the long run! Unless the homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand local real estate values.

We are not talking about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on your home's market value.

Contact us for any questions regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

An increasing amount of MD homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and for the best price, you need a professional appraisal. 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 inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a sensible selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Give you an advantage while bargaining once you have a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Make you aware of problems and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Help lower the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

People are surprised when they find out that the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So investing in an appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they expected they would get. Others have an an overestimated impression of the value of their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

You may have a highly skillful agent but it's definitely a good idea to have an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Gateway Appraisal comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a precise writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Gateway Appraisal also are available for general consulting

Not sure if you need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help gathering local sales and property data. We can provide assistance for your real estate decisions with services especially designed for consumers with your real estate needs.

If your curious what you'll be getting from us when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a prompt response: We will give you personalized information for your particular appraisal need. We'll be more then happy to provide suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Quick turnarounds on appraisals: Normally one week or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a large amount of assignments, and we understand that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "boiler place" report. We offer a variety of types of reports, and are skillful at providing appraisals to clients sans the in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Prompt response to follow-up questions: Documents we deliver are written in plain English, simple to understand, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion about your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!