Appraisal services for home sellers - Barnes Appraisal Company

Be an informed seller. Get an appraisal from Barnes Appraisal Company.

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 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 the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want for it. Rather, the appraisal measures how much your home will bring on the open market.

Going to sell your home yourself?

Quite a few OK 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 to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to take an objective look at 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 can getting a professional appraisal help you set a sensible selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very valuable negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
Alert you of issues and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
Decrease the odds of unknown problems that cause sales to backslide

It can be surprising to people to discover their home's value is quite a bit more than they thought. So investing in an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they thought they would get. Alternatively, some people have an exaggerated assessment of the value of their home, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than sitting on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

You might have an extremely skilled agent but it's definitely a good idea to have of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Barnes Appraisal Company comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise writeup of your home's features and a detailed analysis of the latest and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Serving Comanche County with the finest real estate consulting services

Don't need a full appraisal but still need some information about the health of your area's real estate? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you require some help gathering local property and sales data. We offer services tailored especially for consumers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

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

Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We will provide you with personalized information for your individual appraisal need. Just explain your situation and offer you suggestions.
Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Usually one week or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed lots of assignments, and we know that in the art of real estateappraising there is no typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We offer a lot of different of report types, and are well seasoned at providing appraisals to consumers minus the so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from Barnes Appraisal Company: When we create 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. Should you have any questions about your appraisal, after you've read the report, we encourage you to email or call us!