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What Is Your Home Worth?

What’s Your Home
Actually Worth?

Most homeowners start with an automated estimate. Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com — same algorithm, same blind spots. What an automated valuation cannot see is exactly what determines your home’s actual market value: the quality of your renovations, the view from your primary bedroom, the position of your lot, and the specific competitive set your buyer pool is comparing you against today.

A Comparative Market Analysis is the alternative. Not an estimate. A defensible pricing opinion built from recent comparable sales, current active competition, and direct knowledge of your specific property. Prepared personally by Anne Sostman — a Scottsdale and Paradise Valley specialist with 15+ years of executive-level sales experience.

Submit your details above. Anne will personally review your property and deliver a complete CMA within 24 hours. Complimentary, confidential, no obligation.

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The Honest Picture

What Automated Estimates
Cannot See.

Automated valuation models pull public records, tax data, and historical sale prices. They run statistical comparisons against homes that share your ZIP code and square footage. What they cannot do is walk through your home. They cannot see the $150K kitchen renovation, the resort-quality pool, the mature landscaping, or the Camelback view from your primary bedroom. They also cannot see the deferred maintenance, the original bathrooms, or the outdated layout that might reduce your value relative to the algorithm’s prediction.

In Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, where two homes on the same street can differ by hundreds of thousands of dollars based on condition, view, and improvements, the gap between the algorithm and reality is where pricing mistakes happen. A defensible CMA closes that gap before you ever consider listing.

Renovation Quality Is Invisible to Algorithms.
A $150K kitchen renovation and a $30K kitchen update look identical to a Zestimate. They do not look identical to a buyer, and they do not appraise identically. The quality, recency, and material choice of your improvements are the single largest variable that automated estimates cannot evaluate. The CMA accounts for them at the property level.
View, Lot Position, and Orientation Matter.
A Camelback view adds $200K or more. A north-facing backyard in Arizona is worth measurably more than a south-facing one. Corner lots, cul-de-sac positions, and Greenbelt adjacency all carry premiums that algorithms underweight or ignore entirely. The CMA evaluates your specific lot and its position within your community.
Every Submarket Has Its Own Buyer Pool.
The buyer searching for a Heritage Scottsdale ranch is a different buyer than the one searching for a Gainey Ranch patio home. Each micro-market has its own supply-demand dynamics, days-on-market patterns, and price ceilings. The algorithm treats Scottsdale as a single market. It is not. The CMA evaluates your specific submarket.
Your Competitive Set Changes Weekly.
How many homes are competing with yours right now, at what price, and in what condition? The market shifts monthly — sometimes weekly. A defensible pricing opinion has to be calibrated to today’s active competition, not last quarter’s closed sales. The CMA is built from current data, not the algorithm’s lag.

What’s Inside a CMA

The Four Drivers of
Your Home’s Defensible Price.

A Comparative Market Analysis is not a single number. It is a structured evaluation of the four factors that determine what your home will actually sell for in today’s Scottsdale and Paradise Valley markets.

1
Recent Comparable Sales
Homes that closed in your specific submarket within the last 90 days, adjusted for differences in condition, size, lot, and view. Not the ZIP-code-wide average that algorithms use — the actual closed prices of homes most directly comparable to yours.
2
Active Competitive Set
Every home currently listed in your price band and submarket. Where are they priced. How long have they been on market. What is their condition relative to yours. The market your buyer is choosing from on the day you list is the market that determines your price.
3
Property-Specific Adjustments
Your renovations, finishes, systems, and condition evaluated against the standard of your competitive set. Where you exceed it, you capture a premium. Where you fall short, you absorb a discount. The CMA quantifies both with specific dollar adjustments.
4
Market Direction & Timing
Is your submarket appreciating, flat, or softening. How does inventory compare to six months ago. Are days-on-market expanding or compressing. The current direction of your market either lifts your starting price or argues for a different approach to timing.