The most accurate way to find the value of your house is to have it professionally appraised. Professional appraisals are required by all lenders and must be obtained each time you apply for a loan or refinance your house.
But if you want to just get an idea of your value, and don’t want to pay for an appraisal, go to Zillow now. It is a wonderful tool that allows you to not only look at house values, but also the homes in your neighborhood, online. Zillow has a database of values for over 60,000,000 homes in different locations in the US. But it’s important to remember that Zillow values (so called zestimates) are generated automatically and can and often are grossly inaccurate. So don’t buy the boat from the equity from your house until you are sure that it is real!
There are other sites that provide the same. The best includes CyberHomes and HomeGain, which provides comparables in your neighborhood. The unwanted side effect of such services is that you might become a “lead” and be bothered by an agent hoping to “convert the lead to sale”.
Once you become a client of Cimpler you never have to worry about obtaining the value estimate for any house in the area covered by our company (Bay Area to Sacramento). You can contact your agent anytime or you can contact the company broker. We will provide you with values based on our expertise and expertise of appraisers we work with.