Divorce & equitable distribution
One impartial number on the marital residence, dated as counsel instructs, and set out so it survives being read by someone who wants it to be wrong.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 5–7 business days
Assignments
What kind of appraisal do you need?
Each of these runs to its own date, answers to its own reader, and has its own idea of what makes the report hold up. So the purpose is where it starts.
Estate & date-of-death
What the property was worth on the day the owner died — the figure that fixes the heirs' basis and supports the return the estate has to file.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 5–7 business days
Gift tax
Dated to the day of the gift, and written to the standard that starts the clock the IRS has to beat.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 5–7 business days
Litigation support
Written on the assumption that opposing counsel will read every adjustment and an opposing expert will go looking for the weakest one.
- Typical fee
- Quoted individually
- Turnaround
- 7–14 business days
PMI removal
An appraisal can end a monthly PMI payment, but only on terms your servicer sets. Find out what those are before anyone takes your money.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 3–5 business days
Pre-listing
Genuinely useful in some situations and a waste of money in others. This page is mostly about telling the two apart before you spend anything.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 3–5 business days
Retrospective valuation
A value for a day that has already gone, built only from what the market knew at the time and not from anything that has happened since.
- Typical fee
- Quoted on request
- Turnaround
- 5–10 business days
Two-to-four family
A small income property is not a large house. It gets valued twice — as a building and as an investment — and the two figures rarely agree on the first pass.
- Typical fee
- Quoted individually
- Turnaround
- 7–12 business days
Every figure above is for a single-family residence, confirmed in writing before work starts. Acreage, multi-parcel holdings and improvements with nothing to compare them to get priced one at a time.
Next step
Not sure which one applies?
Describe the situation and the deadline on the phone — it takes a minute. Where an appraisal is the wrong instrument, or where something cheaper would do the job, that is what you will be told.