What Your Grand Forks Home is Actually Worth

What you’ll get

• A price range for your house, not a single number pretending to be precise
• The comparable sales I used, and why those and not others
• What is helping your number and what is hurting it
• Where the Grand Forks market sits right now for a house like yours
• A standing offer to walk through all of it, on the phone or at your kitchen table, with nothing attached

What this actually is

This is the first half of what I do before I list a house. Pulling comps, driving the neighborhood, figuring out where the number really sits and why. Normally that work happens after somebody signs with me. I’d rather do it first, hand it to you, and let you decide whether you want to work with the guy who did it.

An online estimate only knows what’s in public records. It doesn’t know you redid the kitchen three years ago, or that the house down the street sold low because it backs onto a busy road. It can’t tell your street from the one next to it. I can, because I go look.

What I look at that an algorithm can’t

• What you’ve updated since the house last sold
• Condition, inside and out
• Sales that actually match your street, not just your zip code
• Special assessments still owed on the property
• What’s for sale right now that a buyer will compare yours to

If the number isn’t what you hoped for, you’ll hear that from me straight. Better now than three weeks into a listing.

Not quite what you needed?

If you are past the number and into the how, the Home Selling Guide walks the whole thing, pricing through closing day, in the order it actually happens.

Curious where the whole market sits right now? Here’s the Grand Forks housing market, updated every month.

If the real question is where you would go next, the communities page covers the six places I sell in on both sides of the river.

And if you want to know who is doing the work before you hand over your address, that is what the about me page is for.