What's my home worth?
Four questions, about a minute. An agent who works your street reads them and comes back with a real figure — usually the same day. No account, no email wall.
This is not an appraisal, and it is not a formal opinion of value. It is the arithmetic behind the first five minutes of a comparative market analysis — square footage against recent sale prices per square foot in your ZIP code, adjusted for the condition you chose. A licensed agent who has seen the house will give you the real figure, and it can land outside this range in either direction.
What actually moves the number
What sold on your street
Three comparable sales within a few blocks beat any county-wide average, and they are the first thing a buyer's agent will bring to the table.
The first two weeks
A new listing gets more attention in its first two weeks than it will ever get again. Price it right and that turns into offers competing with each other. Price it too high and you spend those weeks proving the price was wrong, then negotiate from behind.
Condition, honestly assessed
Buyers discount what they can see needs doing, and they discount it by more than it costs to fix. Sometimes the advice is to fix it first.
Who is actually buying
Twenty years in the same office means we know which buyers are active in your pocket of the Valley this month, not last year.