Selling your home in or near Honolulu County? Contact First Hawaiian Bank Appraisal Department and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to fully grasp local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

Contact us for details regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Appraisals are valuable tools for families selling without an agent

Quite a few HI homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, you need a expert appraiser. The best thing to have is objective opinions, and we understand that it can be very difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a realistic asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while bargaining while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Call attention to any issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the chances of unrevealed problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out that the value of their home is a great deal more than they thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they expected they would get. Others have an an overestimated impression when they put a value on their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Honolulu County

Even if you're working with a very skilled agent, it's in your best interest to get an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where First Hawaiian Bank Appraisal Department comes in. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a definitive writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed analysis of the most recent and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Someone to ask for for local real estate knowledge

Don't need a full appraisal but would like some information about the health of your area's real estate? You might feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you'd still like some help gathering local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate decisions with services especially tailored for consumers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you place an order for an appraisal through ....

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We tailor information to the needs of our clients Just explain your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Quick turnarounds on appraisals: Normally one week or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, "One size does NOT fit all." We provide many different of types of reports, and have a lot of experience at providing appraisals to consumers without so much of industry jargon in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Quick to follow-up questions: When we create reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, understandable, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries about your appraisal, once you've read the report, just give us a call or email us!