Getting an appraisal from Boivin Appraisals, Inc. before putting your Dupage County home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is a step in the right direction. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth every penny in the long run! Unless the homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to fully grasp real estate market forces.

It's tempting to want to base your home's value on how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Rather, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home. A home is only going to sell for what another person is offering to pay.

Contact us for details regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Going to sell your home yourself?

More and more Illinois homeowners are choosing 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, quickly and to get the most you can, you need a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get an objective opinion, it's very 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.

In addition to helping you set a sound asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:
  • Allow you to have the edge while negotiating when you find a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the possibility of unrevealed problems that cause sales to backslide
It can be surprising to people when they find out their home's value is more than they originally believed. So taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they could have originally gotten. Others have an an inflated assessment of their home's value, and by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price for their home - allowing them to quickly sell it - instead of waiting on the market for months. Asking too much for a home causes buyers to back off, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Pre-listing appraisals in Dupage County

Even if you're working with an extremely talented agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value before signing a listing agreement. And that's where Boivin Appraisals, Inc. comes in. An appraisal can be indispensable in a scenario like this. You and your agent will get a detailed breakdown for your property and its features and give you insight into how the local real estate market is performing with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.

A resource for for local real estate knowledge

If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you still want assistance collecting local sales and property data, we can be a resource for your real estate decisions with services especially tailored for customers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you place an order for an appraisal through us...

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We personalize information to the needs of our customers. We'll be thrilled to give you suggestions - just tell us what your situation is.
  • Quick turnaround for appraisals: Normally 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.
  • Consulting and appraisal report presentations that suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, one size does NOT fit all. We offer a variety of types of reports and have know how at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be real estate attorney to read it.
  • Fast response to follow-up questions: When we deliver a report to our clients, we make sure they are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal after you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!