Need an appraisal in Bethlehem or Northampton County?

Check out the top 7 reasons why PA homeowners hire Grace Realty:

  1. To get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home on their own or using an agent)
  2. Challenge a property tax assessment
  3. To cut your mortgage payment by removing PMI
  4. To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Review a different appraiser's report for verification
  6. In the case of a PA divorce, when real estate needs to be divided
  7. Settle an estate in PA by determining the true market value of real estate in question

Need help determining the value of your home in or near Bethlehem, PA?
Contact Grace Realty.

We at Grace Realty understand the particular needs of a consumer after appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and accountants. As our client, we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to understand what we do and how we document our findings.

For Sale By Owner/Pre-Listing Services

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Our professional appraisers at Grace Realty are objective. We won't just tell you what you want to hear, we will tell you what you need to know. In addition to helping you set a realistic price to sell at so your house will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is very important as a negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. The appraisal is something concrete to show your buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your property's value -- not just how much your home is worth. Interested buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be much more likely to give credibility to an accomplished appraiser's value opinion than yours.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

An attractive money saver for homeowners is getting the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is below 80% of the value of your property. In most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. Grace Realty is experts in helping folks just like you rid themselves of unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Lets say you live in a local area that is declining -- your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. This means you're paying higher taxes than you should be paying. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the quicker you take care of a matter like this, the better. Getting an expert appraisal from Grace Realty is your strongest weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender just may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. Not only can this be troublesome from a cash flow angle, but it can be negative on your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Grace Realty can provide you with efficient appraisal that will help you reinstate your HELOC.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Do you need a professional to double-check your appraisal for precision, or do you want a second opinion without the charge and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? In a field review we will go out and check the subject and comparables. Or, if you need it immediately, we can provide you with a desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? Grace Realty can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may need to exploit this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.