What is your home actually worth?
Not an automated estimate. A comparative market analysis I write by hand — using the actual closed sales on your street, the condition of your specific home, and what buyers on the Peninsula are paying for it right now.
Tell me about your home below and I’ll get to work on it.
What you get back
Not a number in an email. A short document you could hand to your accountant.
The comparable sales, and why each one counts
Comps with reasoning
Every recent sale I used, with a plain-English note on how it compares to your home — lot, condition, layout, block. Comparable sales are only useful if you can see the thinking behind them.
Three pricing scenarios, not one number
Strategy, not a guess
What happens if we price to attract competition, price at market, and price above market — and the likely outcome of each one on your street, at this time of year.
A preparation list with costs and expected return
What’s worth doing
What to do before you list and what to skip. Some homes need forty thousand dollars of work. Some need a deep clean and a landscaper. I’ll tell you which one yours is.
An estimate of your net proceeds
The number that matters
Sale price minus commissions, transfer taxes, title, escrow, and your remaining mortgage. What actually lands in your account is the only figure worth planning around.
A timeline working backward from your date
If you have a deadline
If you need to be out by a certain month, we work backward from it — preparation, photography, launch, contingency period, close.
What the market is doing for sellers
Burlingame · July 2026 · via MLSListings
A balanced market carries five to six months of inventory. The Peninsula is nowhere near that, which means sellers have real leverage right now. But leverage only turns into dollars if the pricing and the preparation are right — that is the entire job.
See the full Burlingame market report →
How I price a Peninsula home
- I walk it. Photos and public records miss the things that move price most — light, flow, grade, street noise, what the neighbor’s remodel did to your view.
- I pull the real comps. Not the automated set. Closed sales I can defend to a buyer’s agent and to an appraiser, which is exactly where a stretch price falls apart.
- We choose a strategy together. Pricing to create competition is usually right in a market under one month of inventory — but not always, and I will tell you when it isn’t.
- We plan the first ten days before we launch. Preparation, disclosures done up front, photography, launch day, offer policy. In an eight-day market, the opening weekend is the market.
Why not just check an online estimate?
Check one. It is a reasonable starting point and I would rather you arrive informed. But it helps to know what an automated valuation can and cannot do.
It reads square footage, bedroom count, and recent nearby sales. It has never been inside your home. It does not know that you redid the kitchen, or that your lot backs to the tracks, or that the sale two streets over was a full remodel while yours is original.
On the Peninsula, where a single block can swing the number by hundreds of thousands of dollars, that gap is not academic. It is the difference between pricing to compete and pricing into three weeks of silence.
Common questions
Is this really free, and what is the catch?
It is free and there is no obligation. The honest incentive: some people who get one eventually hire me and some don’t. I would rather be the person you remember when you’re ready than the one who pressured you when you weren’t.
What if I am not selling for another year or two?
That is often the most useful time to get one. Knowing your number and your preparation list early means you can do the work gradually instead of scrambling in the eight weeks before you list.
Do you need to come see the home?
For a genuinely accurate number, yes — a walkthrough usually takes about thirty minutes. I can give you a preliminary range from the form alone if you would rather start there.
What areas do you cover?
The Bay Area Peninsula — Burlingame, San Mateo, Millbrae, Foster City, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Menlo Park and the surrounding cities.
How is this different from a Zestimate?
A person looks at your actual home and can defend every comparable used. Automated models cannot account for condition, and on the Peninsula condition regularly moves the number by six figures.
Will you list my home if I use this?
Only if you want me to. Plenty of people use a valuation for refinancing, estate planning, a divorce, or simple curiosity, and never sell at all. That is fine.
Ready when you are
Fill out the form above, or if you would rather just talk it through first, call or text me directly. No script and no pitch.