Selling your home in or near Cumberland County? Contact Portfolio Appraisals, Inc. and make sure you're setting the price 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 a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to fully grasp local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

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

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

More and more ME homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, you need a qualified appraiser. You need objective opinions, and we understand that it's hard 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 astute selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining once you have a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to fall through

It can be surprising to people when they find out 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. Alternatively, some people have an inflated opinion of their home's value, 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, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a professional value opinion before listing

Even if you're working with a very skilled agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Portfolio Appraisals, Inc. can help. We can provide 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.

A resource for for local real estate knowledge

Not wanting to get a full appraisal but would like some information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you still want some help analyzing local property and sales data. We can be a resource for your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for customers with your real estate needs.

After you order an appraisal report through , you can expect....

  • Immediate response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients We'll be thrilled to give you suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Fast turnarounds for appraisals: Usually in a weeks time 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 formats that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed quite a few of assignments, and we know that when it comes real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" assignment. We provide many different of types of reports, and have know how at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Prompt response to follow-up questions: When we create reports, we make sure they are clearly written, understandable, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions about your appraisal, once you've read the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!