In today’s real estate market banks have a difficult time confirming the value of the homes they are financing, and consequently buyers have a hard time getting the money they need to buy their homes. To avoid the confusion on the price of a home, banks hire a third party assessment of a homes value, called an appraisal.

An appraisal is designed to use local market trends to validate the purchase price of a home, or to invalidate it. Ideally the bank would want to make sure that the home they are lending money on, and may have to take back in the event of a foreclosure, is worth the money so they can recoup any loses they may have on the loan.

An appraiser can not just be someone off of the street. An appraiser is a formerly trained person who knows the trends and values of the local real estate market. The objective valuation an appraiser is supposed to provide cannot be influenced by buyer nor seller or the entire appraisal may be corrupted and unreliable.

The appraisal has to be a neutral valuation, no matter the certification, so that the best interest of the client, which is the bank, is best served. If this is violated then the appraisal has to be reviewed or thrown out altogether.

The frightening side of an appraisal is when there is a willing and able buyer, but the appraiser says the property is not worth the asking price. At that point there is really only one thing that can happen to salvage the purchase and that is for the seller to reduce the asking price.

A very rare solution is for the buyer to cough up the difference, but they really have to like the property to do that, typically.

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