The goal of home improvements if you plan to sell is to make money. With this in mind, the focus should always be on improvements that are high in profit based on what you plan to spend. Everything else is secondary.
Your neighbor listed their property for sale for a certain price. Does that automatically tell you your home’s worth? Maybe, maybe not. But here’s a fact. You can’t just cherry-pick homes to justify the value of your home. You got to look at all sales – what’s available, under contract, and recently sold – to conclude your home value.
Too many times, I find it that people are shy about asking how much their house is worth. They think I am too busy or just simply don’t want to bother me. STOP!
Letting you know the value of your home, even if its just for the sake of curiosity, is never an issue for me. So go ahead. Ask me.
9 times out of 10, people check their home value on Zillow or Trulia prior to calling a real estate agent. I personally think these sites are great considering they get it right about 50% of the time (when you take into account that an algorithm is trying to determine a very complex ordeal such as the value of a home…props to that).
So why do they miss the mark the other 50% of the time?
I don’t really know, and I doubt anyone else truly knows, but here is my guess. Because they can only see what’s on the outside of the property thru the eye in the sky – aka satellites – and they can only analyze what can be found on public records such as number of beds, number of baths, etc.
The problem here is two-fold.
Often, public records are incorrect
These sites can’t see the interior of your home
Say you added a family room to a property. Or your home was built in 1975, but you have made an update here and there. It’s this lack of accurate information that can distort what’s reported in sites like Zillow.
Questions about your home value? Call / text (305) 305 1535 or email me!