Attention homeowners: Real estate appraisal services for in Seattle and King County

See the top seven reasons WA homeowners hire Crest Appraisal Services:

Pre-listing appraisals (whether they're selling the home themselves or using a real estate agent)
Challenge King county's assessment of your property
Remove PMI to cut a mortgage payments
To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
Verify another appraiser's report
In the case of a WA divorce, where property needs to be divided
To settle an estate in WA by determining the true market value of real estate in question

Need help determining the price of your home in or near Seattle, WA?
Contact Crest Appraisal Services.

We at Crest Appraisal Services understand the special needs of a customer seeking appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are familiar to our business clients like banks, attorneys, and CPAs. As our valued client, we will provide you with extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we document our findings.

For Sale By Owner/Pre-Listing Services

It's very hard to be objective about your own home because you most likely have an emotional attachment to it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at Crest Appraisal Services, are objective. We'll tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear. In addition to helping you set a realistic price to sell at so your home will attract interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a crucial negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. It's something concrete to show your buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your home's value -- not just how much your house is worth. Interested buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be much more likely to give credibility to an experienced appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to cut costs for homeowners is getting the PMI removed from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is below 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. We're experienced in helping clients just like you get rid of unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if your house not appreciating as much as other houses close to yours. That means you're paying more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the quicker you take care of things like this, the better off you'll be. Getting an appraisal report from Crest Appraisal Services is your perfect weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender just may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your home is close to a declining area. This can this be difficult from a cash flow standpoint, and damaging to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Crest Appraisal Services can provide you with efficient appraisal that will help you reinstate your HELOC.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Would you wish a second opinion without the expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you need a seasoned expert to double-check your appraisal for verity? An appraiser from Crest Appraisal Services can go out and check the subject and comparables in question in a field review. If you need it ASAP, we'll provide you with a desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? We can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may wish to utilize this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.