Your home is more than an address and an average.
Public information is important, but it cannot see everything about the property you actually live in. The Home Value Opinion combines market research with the information only you may know about your home.
Information first.
The purpose of the Home Value Opinion is to give you a useful starting point before you decide whether you want to speak with a Realtor.
An address can tell us where the home is. It cannot tell us what you have done to it.
Public data sees the property from the outside.
The homeowner can tell us things public records may never know.
Most automated home estimates begin with the address and whatever public information can be found about the property.
That can include property type, approximate size, previous listings, nearby sales, neighbourhood information and other useful market evidence.
I use that information too.
But it cannot reliably tell us whether the kitchen was renovated last year, whether the bathrooms are original, how well the property has been maintained, whether the basement is useful, what the backyard feels like, or how buyers may react when they actually walk through the door.
That is why I ask the homeowner about the property before the valuation research begins.
Imagine 1,000 identical homes.
Imagine 1,000 homes built 15 years ago with the same four-bedroom design, two bathrooms, two-car garage and approximately the same original selling price.
On the day they were completed, those homes might have been almost interchangeable. Fifteen years later, they are not.
Some have new kitchens, bathrooms, windows and major systems. Some have finished basements and beautiful outdoor spaces. Some have been meticulously maintained. Others remain almost completely original.
Public information may still see many of the same basic facts about all 1,000 properties.
But a buyer walking through those homes would not value every one of them the same way.
That is why the market evidence and the homeowner's knowledge both matter.
Ten simple questions tell us what public data cannot.
One final report. Four simple stages.
Nothing is researched for the valuation when you first enter your address. Market research begins only after you finish the questionnaire and request your report.
Tell us about the home
Answer the 10 questions about condition, maintenance, updating and other property characteristics.
Request the report
Confirm where your Home Value Opinion should be sent. Until then, no valuation research is performed.
The market is researched
Public property information, nearby evidence and market context are researched to establish a practical range.
Your answers refine it
Your property information helps determine where your home belongs within that researched market framework.
More useful than a number on a screen.
The final Home Value Opinion explains the property, the researched market range and why your particular home appears to sit where it does.
The goal is to show you the reasoning, not simply hand you a number and ask you to trust it.
Receiving the report does not automatically mean a sales call.
Keep the information if that is all you wanted. If you later want Realtor help, you can ask for the conversation.
Tell us about the home first. Then let the market research begin.
The questionnaire should only take a few minutes. Nothing is researched for your valuation until you finish and request the report.