Automated estimates don’t know you redid the kitchen. They don’t know your street backs up to train noise. They don’t know the house two doors down sold for more because it has a finished basement and yours doesn’t.
What you get
- A written value range, not a single number.
- The comparable sales behind it, so you can see the reasoning.
- The two or three things that would move the number, which is the part you can still act on.
How it works
- A look at the property and its condition. I walk it, or do it over video if you’re not local yet. Updates, deferred maintenance, and the things a photo won’t show.
- The sales that actually compare. Recent sales in your town, not the county or the region, plus whatever is competing with you right now.
- A value range and the reasoning behind it. A number without reasoning is a guess with confidence attached, so you get the range and how I got there.
In Connecticut that also means factoring in the tax picture, since what a buyer can afford to pay for your house is shaped by the monthly payment it carries.
More on how a home’s value is actually worked out, including what automated estimates miss and why they are as often high as low.
What it isn’t
This is not an automated estimate, and asking for one does not commit you to listing. Some people are preparing to sell. Others are trying to work out whether a move makes sense at all.