Sales appraisal request

We recommend having a property appraisal when it’s time to make important decisions about your home or living situations - such as when you’re looking to sell your home. This is as many people will start running numbers and doing financial planning around their home appraisal value to try to keep their projections and budgeting as accurate as possible.

Property valuations differ from appraisals in that they are formal, “definitive” values of a property performed by registered property valuers that are used for more formal proceedings - with valuations often being a requirement from a bank in order to confirm your approval for mortgage lending on that specific property. Property valuations carry a considerable cost, often up to $1000 for residential properties, and even more for commercial and rural properties.

One of our agents will meet you at your property and have a thorough examination of your home and land. They’ll ask you questions to help record the most accurate information about your home, like the age of your kitchen appliances, and you’ll have plenty of time to ask them any questions about your home, recommendations, the sales process or anything you’d like. You don’t need to worry about having your home looking “market ready” - our team does not need this in order to create an accurate appraisal, though we’ll be happy to discuss if staging could improve your sale price if selling your home is a consideration of yours. 

From here, we’ll return to the office and combine this information with other data-driven information, sales histories and more to create your home’s appraisal report.

You don’t need to be present for digital appraisals, as they don’t require any access to your home. We do require you to be present for an in-person and virtual appraisals, as we may ask questions about your home during the walkthrough that you as the homeowner would have the most insight on. This enables us to give you the most accurate appraisal possible.

We don’t want anything to hold you back from being well-informed about your property, which is why our property appraisals are always completely free to you.

There’s quite a comprehensive process that goes on behind-the-scenes of our property appraisals, with our team looking at everything such your property size, age, condition, location, proximity to amenities, parking, structural features, interior features and finishes, appliances, comparable sales in the area, market conditions, the current demand for your property type, environmental factors (such as being located in a marked flooding zone), other zoning limitations, and much more.

Here at Kindred, your property appraisal is completed by one of our experienced real estate agents who are backed by an entire team of property leaders and customer care professionals.

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Home appraisals are important because if you’re making plans for the future that involve selling your home, buying another, getting financing against your existing home or completing renovations, you want to know what your home is worth today - not what it was worth a year ago or at its last formal valuation. Markets shift, prices rise and fall, and it’s important for you to have realistic expectations as you make important decisions about your family’s future. While many well-meaning friends and family members may be quick to give you their “two cents” about your property, accurate appraisals can only be completed by experienced and knowledgeable local property leaders that have a comprehensive understanding about today’s market and can offer you the most accurate advice and sales estimates.

The beauty of our sales appraisals is that we understand that everyone’s circumstances and availability is different, and are happy to work with you to make the process as easy, simple and effective for you as possible. In person appraisals do give us the most accurate estimates by having us have a comprehensive look inside your home, where we can identify features (and issues) that we can discuss and clarify with you. This may be best suited for you if you’d also like to discuss how to prepare your home to help maximise its value.

Virtual appraisals involve having us “walk through” your home via a video call, which may be more convenient for some compared to an in-person visit. It still allows for a detailed estimate, giving us a good idea of how much you can expect to sell your home for. Digital appraisals are completed without any walkthroughs, instead using a combined record of the property history, sales data and the local market conditions. This is an easy and hassle-free start for many who want to gain an estimate of their home value before taking that next step forward.

A property appraisal is a professional opinion of the value of your property, so you can gain a better idea of the market value of your home as well as what to place as an asking price (or reserve price at auction) before opting to pay for a formal valuation. It’s also a fantastic opportunity to identify any pre-sale work on the house that can go a long way in adding value to your home.

Here at Kindred, we can conduct appraisals in three ways: digitally, virtually with a video call walk through, or an in-person appraisal with one of our agents.