Vacant Land Appraisals
Getting Vacant Land Appraised
No one ever said evaluating the worth of your vacant lot would be easy. Land investors run into issues when attempting to evaluate this specific property’s value because the traditional methods of valuation (e.g. cost, comparison, and income approach) are not easy to determine.
This is made even more frustrating because an appraisal is the beginning of your buying and selling process. Several factors depend on the appraisal report to proceed like property taxes, selling price, and your profit margin. Without an accurate appraisal, you risk unknowingly taking a loss or unintentionally inflating all the dependent variables.
A quality real estate appraiser will reduce the likelihood of either of these unfortunate circumstances. WestRock appraisers analyze a piece of land’s accessibility, topography, and zoning regulations to determine its potential uses and create an accurate appraisal report. With our standards for detailed, efficient, and thorough appraisals, your raw land is ready to become commercial land, regardless of the type of land.
WestRock can have your vacant lot appraised and determine its worth based on a combination of approaches. By asking questions to determine the land’s development stage (does it already have access to electricity, thoroughfares, a water sewer, etc.) an appraisal will provide context for the level of investment required from a lender for its potential use.
Using our state of the art valuation technology and the expertise of our seasoned appraisers, we guarantee an accurate appraisal to ensure you can make a well-informed decision about this land investment.
Who Can Use a Vacant Property Appraisal?
Whether you’re a lender, investor, or developer, an appraisal is a crucial next step for this vacant property. An appraisal is the first domino before all the rest. Before money even changes hands, you need an accurate appraisal that establishes this property’s worth to you. An appraisal report will benefit you by determining a property’s value, uncovering potential detriments, and shedding light on how much work needs to be put into it to make it viable.
We are proud of our partnerships and developing new ones is pivotal. Whether you are obtaining an appraisal for yourself or a client, we are ready to help.
Each real estate property is different and WestRock’s prices are tailored to each appraisal assignment.
Contact us to discuss the details of your needs to establish your real estate appraisal’s unique price.
The WestRock Difference
You need more than just service from your real estate appraiser. When so much of what you do relies on quality real estate appraisals, you need experience, transparency, and expertise. That's what it means to work with WestRock.
Our Real Estate Appraisal Reports
WestRock’s real estate appraisal reports are based on several factors. Any institutional property appraisal will be a result of these three approaches to provide the foundation for this quantitative data analysis:
- Market Approach: A method that values an asset based on comparable property sales. Also known as the sales comparison approach, it tracks recently completed sales of similar properties to determine a property’s current market appeal.
- Cost Approach: A method that values a property based on the replacement cost of constructing a similar property, minus depreciation, plus the site’s value.
- Discounted Cash Flow: A method that estimates the value of an investment based on potential cash flows. Initial and annual costs, estimated income, and any holding periods are all variables used in this method.
Reliable market analysis is crucial for a trustworthy real estate appraisal. Each of our real estate appraisal reports is meticulously prepared with your institutional real estate property in mind. WestRock delivers on accuracy and credibility using factors like:
- Area Analysis: Deduction of relevant market trends, demographic statistics, and economic indicators.
- Zoning Analysis: An in-depth evaluation of the property’s compliance with relevant zoning standards.
- Improvements and Suggestions: Comprehensive descriptions, along with sketches and photographs, to detail a property’s optimized improvements.
- Real Estate Taxes Statistics: This feature analyzes historical and current taxes to project accurate real estate taxes for the subject property.
- Comparison Data: Detailed photos, descriptions, and analytics of comparative properties are provided for comparison. A sales comparison grid depicts all data and any necessary adjustments.
- Income Analysis: Evaluation of historical data to determine a property’s projected income and its requisite expenses.
- Complete itemization of all income sources.
- Operating Expenses: We provide an operating expense history and anticipate your expenses based on our extensive collection of comparable expense data.
- Capitalization Rate Development: Residential and Commercial loan rate surveys provide a basis for capitalization rate development.
Experience Matters
When choosing a real estate appraisal service that’s right for you, it is imperative that they have a team of professionals with experience, education, capability, and integrity. We emphasize these values in our recruitment and training, ensuring that every real estate appraisal report generated by a member of our team can serve your clients’ interests properly.
The coveted MAI designation is held by real estate appraisers who have invested a substantial amount of time in their own training to cultivate extensive experience in the valuation of properties from commercial to residential real estate. MAI appraisers go above and beyond to perform quality real estate appraisals to advise clients on sound real estate investment decisions and Steve Romer is no different. WestRock’s president and founder possesses the MAI designation, demonstrating the efforts he underwent to excel beyond fellow participants in the Appraisal Institute. He instills that experience into every aspect of WestRock’s real estate appraisal operations.
A real estate appraisal service that boasts even one MAI designated appraiser in their ranks demonstrates credibility, knowledge, and experience. Let WestRock use these skills to your investment advantage.
Pricing
Prices vary on specific real estate appraisal reports because of many factors like:
- Property type
- Size and complexity of property
- Property location and travel distance involved
- Ease of obtaining data in the relevant market area
- Scope of work
- Reporting format
- Turnaround time