Selling your home in or near Shelby County? Contact Keystone Appraisal Co. and make sure you're setting the price 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 every penny in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of real estate market forces.

It's tempting to want to base your home's value on the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Instead, an appraisal provides a professional opinion on the true market value of your home. Technically, something is only going to sell for the price another person is going to pay.

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

Selling on your own?

Quite a few Tennessee homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need an objective opinion, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to take an objective look at your 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:
  • Give you an advantage while bargaining 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 problems and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Help lower the odds of unrevealed problems that cause sales to backslide
People are surprised when they find out that their home's value is quite a bit more than they thought. So 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 originally expected. Others have an an overestimated assessment when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal gave them the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home - allowing them to quickly sell it - rather than gathering dust on the market for months. An overpriced home causes buyers to back off, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Shelby County

You may have a very skillful agent, but it's definitely a good idea to get an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing contract. Keystone Appraisal Co. can help. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a detailed breakdown of 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.

Sometimes it's useful to have a general resource for local real estate knowledge

If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you still want assistance collecting local property and sales data, we have services designed especially for customers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

After you order an appraisal report from us, you can expect....

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a fast response: We will give you information tailored for your individual appraisal need. Just tell us your situation, and we will make suggestions.
  • Fast turnaround time: Usually in a week's time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report ready to download.
  • Consulting and appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a lot of assignments, and we know that in the art of real estate appraising, it's naive to think there's a typical or standard "cookie cutter" assignment. We offer a variety of types of reports and are familiar at providing appraisals to consumers without a lot of the industry jargon and in an easy to read format with the general public in mind.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick response from Keystone Appraisal Co.: Reports we create are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion regarding your appraisal once you've read the report, we suggest that you simply email or call us!