Building wealth through real estate takes just a little dedication, determination and education. One very significant aspect of real estate investing that you should train yourself is how to appraise or evaluate a property’s value. This is very significant to comprehend since your profit is made when you acquire the property and only realized when you sell it. Determining a property’s worth is a fiddly field and you must have sound real estate tricks up your skin to pull it off productively.
Sammy Zherka is a real estate developer, consultant, and investor, with more than 30 years of experience. Since he was 17, he has worked in the industry and has established outstanding working relationships with many monetary institutions, including Bankers Federal, Manhattan Savings Bank, Dime of Williamsburg, Capital One, North Fork Bank, Investor Savings, Signature Bank, and German Financial.
Fair Market Value and market demands
Logically, factors such as market demand have a tendency to abide by the concept that the higher-priced recorded sales best symbolize true market value, while those lower-priced sales possibly represent distressed sales. Nevertheless, this inaccurate science frequently results in tax protests and higher assessments by homeowners.
It is significant to note that assessment opinions are based on the prejudiced interpretation of obtainable information. Commercial real estate education plays a significant factor in prejudiced interpretation. This may be in disparity to imposed market values, which can set by legal action or the IRS such as prominent domain. With the IRS, fair market value of real estate can be a very significant consideration. For instance, if you were to put up for sale your home to your daughter for a sum that is significantly under local comps, the divergence between that reduced price and what the IRS considers fair market value will be considered as a gift for tax purposes.
The method of calculating fair market value should not change with a down market, at least hypothetically. But in reality, there are so many homes sold at auction and foreclosure in distressed sales that such transactions are no longer the anomalies they were a few years ago. Hence, these sales results almost have to be factored in with conventional sales to reflect a true market standard from a marketing and taxing perspective.
Fair-market values are probably lower than estimated at this bottom stage in the real estate cycle. As is true with any asset, what someone is willing to pay for it, not its list or assessed price determines its real value. A home’s condition and “location, location, location” play big roles in determining fair market value in residential real estate as well as other factors like nearby amenities, home features, and crime statics.
Most real estate agents like Sammy Zherka can calculate a reasonably accurate price based on “comps,” short for a comparative (or competitive) market analysis. You can create your own “comps” based on information from your local property tax office and perusal of Internet and newspaper sale ads, but this strategy probably will not give you as accurate a picture as actual recent neighborhood sales in your price and size range.
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