Homes are selling for more than ever these days, and if you choose to list your home, yours could be next, right? Maybe not. Understanding the true value of your home can be more complex than you think. How can you perform a free house value check so you can decide whether now is the right time to sell? Take a look at a few options.
- Estate Agents: If you’re considering selling your home, often the best first place to check on home values in your area is to work with an estate agent. These professionals can typically tell you what your home is worth fairly quickly, and that may help influence you to go ahead and list it on the market. The problem with this approach is clear, though. If you work with an estate agent from the beginning of the process, they’ll expect you to work with them to the end of the process, and that includes paying their commission fees. That’s not a problem if you’re looking for a traditional home sale. If you’re looking for something a bit different, though – like selling to a cash buyer or selling it on your own – that could be an issue. You can certainly expect some frustration on the part of the agent.
- Compare Your Home to Others: There are lots of DIY home sale websites available today, and often they can give you some idea of the actual value of your home. Tools like Zoopla are an incredibly popular way to look at homes in your area and homes with the same amenities as yours and understand exactly what they’re currently selling for. The real drawback with tools like these, though, is that they can only provide an estimate. Often they can’t tell you exactly what your home might be worth.
- Work with a Cash Buyer: GoodMove gives you a free, no obligation offer within just a few hours. All you have to do is enter your postcode on our online form. If you’re happy with the offer, we can move forward with the valuation process. If it’s not quite what you expected, at least you know what your home is worth.
Why Understanding What Your Home is Worth Matters?
Performing a house value check isn’t just for those looking to sell. You should always know the value of your home, even if you never plan to sell. Wondering why? Having a better understanding of your home’s value means easier access to the equity in your home. Should you ever want a home equity line of credit to make repairs or access some extra cash, understanding the value of your home versus the value of your mortgage is essential.
Moreover, should your life situation change fairly quickly, you would be able to go ahead and list your home for sale without a problem. It would simply be a matter of prepping it for potential buyers.
Working with GoodMove
Whether you’re ready to sell now or not, we can do a fast house value check. If you do decide to sell your home, the process is easy when you work with us. You simply enter your information into our online form, drop us an email, or give us a call. Within a matter of hours, we’ll have a preliminary quote ready for your review. If it seems like the right number of help you move forward, we’ll book inspections from two independent professionals to help establish our final numbers. Once you see those reports, you can decide whether or not you actually want to work with us. If you’re happy to move forward, we pay the conveyancing solicitor’s fees, sign the contract, and hand you the cash. It really is that easy, and there are no repairs or deep cleaning necessary.
At GoodMove, we know your home is the most valuable investment you’ve ever made, and if you’re ready to do something different with your home, we can help. To learn more about our buying process or just to get the true value of your home, give us a call now or drop us an email. We can’t wait to connect with you.