Youve sold your home and are getting ready for the appraisal. Heres how contracts and comparable home sales impact the appraisal.
Your Contract
One of the indications of value an appraiser takes into consideration is the contract that exists between unrelated parties for the sale and purchase of the home. As odd as this may sound, sales between relatives often downgrade an appraisal amount. So if youre not selling your home to a relative, make a nice clean copy of your contract, and give it to the appraiser who appraises your home.
Comparable Sales
In general, when you are selling your primary residence, the person buying it is going to make it his primary residence, too. An appraisal done in that situation usually gives the most value to what similar houses have sold for in the same neighborhood (or nearby) recently, and doesnt pay much attention to the ability of the property to generate rental income or to what it would cost to replace it.
Therefore, the appraiser is going to be looking for homes which have sold in your area in the past few months. If you know of a sale of a similar home at a good price, tell the appraiser about it. Make...
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