{"id":7241,"date":"2024-09-17T12:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:13:02","slug":"what-appraisers-look-for-in-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/what-appraisers-look-for-in-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"What Appraisers Look For in a House"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a constantly evolving housing market, it\u2019s essential to know what appraisers look for in a house. An appraisal can impact your home sale<\/a> significantly, especially if it doesn\u2019t go as planned.<\/p>\n

Appraisals<\/a> are a professional third-party assessment of a home\u2019s value. Whenever a mortgage is used to buy a home<\/a>, an appraiser will need to assess the home\u2019s value to ensure the bank is not lending the buyer more than the home is worth. For example, if a buyer offers $300,000 for a house but it appraises for $250,000, the bank won\u2019t lend the total amount needed to purchase. For similar reasons, appraisals are also necessary when refinancing a home<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Appraisers employ a systematic <\/span>valuation process<\/span><\/a> to determine an opinion of a home\u2019s market value. Most of them report their findings on a standard Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac form called the <\/span>Uniform Residential Appraisal Report<\/span><\/a> (URAR). But what goes on that report?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See your home through an appraiser\u2019s eyes with this guide to what appraisers look for in a house, from top to bottom and inside and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":48168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[242,322],"tags":[732],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-appraisals","category-logistics","tag-what-do-appraisers-look-for"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Appraisers Look For In a House? 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