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How to Build Equity in Your Home

Chicagoland Appraisal Blog

Increasing your property value through renovations or home additions, and paying off your mortgage, seem like the most straightforward ways to build equity. But there are also some factors that determine what your house is worth that are out of your control, like the location and popularity of the particular housing market.

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Appraisals derail sales in the tight Chicago market!

Chicagoland Appraisal Blog

I don’t quite understand how a perceived shortage of appraisers is contributing to the main problem which is “the appraisers aren’t keeping up with rising prices”. I wonder what quote we might receive from Mr. Gregory if market prices were declining. That being said tangent finished and back to the point.