A real opinion of value
Not a number designed to win your listing. I will walk the house, pull what has actually sold nearby, and show you the comparables I used so you can argue with them.
Selling
Priced right,
or it sits.
The market does not care what you need to get out of the house. It answers the price you ask. My job is to tell you the truth about that number before we publish it, and to fix it fast if the market disagrees.
Prep that pays for itself
Some work returns more than it costs and most does not. I will tell you which is which, and where doing nothing is the right call.
Photography and the listing itself
Buyers meet your house on a phone screen first. Professional photography, a written description that says something, and the listing detail filled in properly so it turns up in the searches that matter.
Offers, and the awkward conversations
Reviewing terms rather than just the top number, handling inspection requests, and keeping the lender and escrow moving. When a buyer arrives without an agent, all of that lands on my desk instead of being split.
A real one
The listing that needed a price correction.
A split-entry in Mountlake Terrace listed in January at $725,000. The market did not answer it. We corrected the price and it recorded in February at $650,000, to a buyer who arrived without an agent, which put every piece of the transaction on my desk.
I could leave that off this page. I am not going to, because the useful part is what it cost to find out: weeks. Pricing a house is the one decision that is hard to walk back, and the sooner you hear an honest number the cheaper the whole thing gets.
No listing agreement, no pressure
What is your house worth?
Tell me the address and roughly when you are thinking. You will get an honest read on the number and the timing, and no obligation to do anything with it.