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Looking for advice on offer to buy

9 years ago

Before April property assesment was $69700. This years assessment $81000. Asking price $100000.

However...

Larger lot directly across the street assessed at $84600 and sold for $70900 in March. And lot next to that (again larger than the lot we may offer on, assessed at $84600 and sold for $78700 in April. All lots are comparable.

Other lots sold at or below assessment prior to the new property assesments coming out just a few months ago.

What would you offer?

Comments (10)

  • 9 years ago

    Are these tax assessments? Or sold prices from recent sales? If they are tax assessments they may not be that relevant depending on your market. What does your realtor suggest?

  • 9 years ago
    tax assesments and prices the neighboring propertys sold for. Its a large parcel of land being split up into small lots
  • 9 years ago

    When you say all lots are comparable, do you mean size? Are they all level with the street or is one side higher, one side below street. Do any have a view?

  • 9 years ago
    yes I generally agree but the lots seem to be selling for or below or at appraisal values. The lot we want to offer on is smaller and the comparables have no view, are level and are slightly larger than the one we want to offer on.
  • 9 years ago

    Appraisal or assessment? Two very different things.

  • 9 years ago

    Your terminology started with 'assessed' and more recently you say 'appraised'. Do you think of them as the same thing?

    The lot that sold in April sold at approx. 93% of it's assessed price. What was the asking price?

    If you offer 93% of the current assessed price on the lot you want, that is around $75,500, which is only 75% of asking. Depending on how sales are going, they may not accept, but you can tell them how that offer amount was arrived at.

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Assessment = valuation by local government for taxes

    Appraisal = valuation by the lender (who hires the appraiser)

    Zillow = valuation by a computer algorithm

    Comparative Market Analysis = valuation by a Realtor

    List price = valuation by the seller

    Sales price = valuation seller and buyer agree to

    All 6 can be different.

  • 9 years ago

    IMO, you start with actual sales price of comparables. Then adjust for specific differences, such as view, slope, location, road noise, distance to neigbbor.

  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    You say the lots across the street have no view. If the lot you want to offer on does have aview, that can be a huge difference. The less attrative locations are often larger lots to compensate, but the premium lots will still command a premium. That's the way developers start out and the sales with homes seem to remain pretty consistent to that model.

    An offer is an offer. Is $20k give or take going to be a deal killer on the home you plan to build? And yes, the actual sales tell you what the market is saying, but in the end, relatively small variables reflect what is important to you.