Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Confidential Appraisal Services, LLC will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand local real estate values.

You, as a homeowner, might be focused on how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want to sell it for. You see, an appraisal assesses how much your home will bring on the open market. Technically, something is only worth the price another person is willing to pay.

Contact us for details regarding the specific services for home sellers we offer.

Going to sell your home yourself?

Quite a few Maine homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and for the best price, you need a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get an objective opinion, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to take an objective look at 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 sound selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:
  • Give you an advantage while bargaining once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of problems and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Help lower the possibility of unidentified problems that cause sales to backslide
It can be surprising to people when they find out that the value of their home is quite a bit more than they thought. So taking the first step and investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they expected they would get. Others have an an exaggerated impression of the value of their home, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home - allowing them to quickly sell it - instead of sitting on the market for months. Asking too much for a home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting your valuable time and draining your resources while you're in Real Estate "limbo".

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

Even if you have an extremely talented agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing contract. And that's where Confidential Appraisal Services, LLC comes in. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise description of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

We also offer general consulting

If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help collecting local sales and property data, we offer services designed for the needs of consumers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

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

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We will provide you with information tailored for your individual appraisal need. We'll be more then happy to give you suggestions - just tell us what your situation is.
  • Quick turnaround on appraisals: Typically in a week's time or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a PDF ready for you to download from our site or in your e-mail.
  • Appraisal and consulting report formats that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a lot of assignments, and we've learned that when it's real estate consulting and appraising, it's naive to think there's a typical or standard "cookie cutter" report. We provide many different types of reports and have know how at providing appraisals to clients minus the industry jargon so that you don't have to be real estate attorney to understand it.
  • Quick to follow-up questions: Reports we write are written in plain English, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion about your appraisal after you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!