Free home valuation
What your house is worth, from sales that actually closed.
There is no instant estimate here, on purpose. Give the address and a few details, and Chris pulls real closed comparable sales and sends your number within 24 hours.
Free, and with no obligation to list.
Why no instant number
Louisiana does not publish what houses sell for
Louisiana is a non-disclosure state. When a house sells here, the price is not required to be made public, so the public record an automated estimate reads is missing the one figure that matters most. The models fill the gap with asking prices, old sales and statistics from other markets, and the result can be off by tens of thousands of dollars in either direction.
The closed prices do exist. They sit in the REALTOR® Association of Acadiana MLS, which a licensed agent can read and a website cannot. That is where your number comes from: homes like yours that actually sold, recently and nearby, adjusted for the things a record cannot show.
The promise, plainly: Chris pulls real closed comparable sales and sends your number within 24 hours, with the sales it rests on.
Takes about two minutes
Request your valuation
Three short steps. Only the last one asks for anything required, and nothing is sent until you press the button at the end. Anything you are unsure about can be left blank.
The difference
An automated estimate against an actual analysis
The automated estimate
Free, instant- What it sees
- Public records: square footage, bed and bath count, lot size, and whatever sale history it can find, which in Louisiana often leaves out the price.
- What it cannot see
- A new roof, a failed slab, the flood in 2016, the renovation that was never permitted, or that the comparable it used backs onto a coulee and yours does not.
- How it handles condition
- It does not. Condition is the largest single variable in this market and the model has no input for it.
- What it is good for
- A rough order of magnitude, and watching a trend over time. That is genuinely useful and it is not a price.
A comparative market analysis
Free, within 24 hours- What it uses
- Closed sales of genuinely comparable properties from the REALTOR® Association of Acadiana MLS, which is data the public sites do not fully have.
- How it adjusts
- Line by line for age, condition, updates, lot, drainage and location, with the reasoning written down so you can argue with it.
- What you get
- A price range, the comparable sales behind it, and a plain explanation of what would move you to the top of that range.
- What it costs
- Nothing, and there is no obligation to list afterwards. Plenty of these end with somebody deciding to stay.
What moves the number
Six things that change what a house is worth here
- Roof age.
- In the current Louisiana insurance market this is close to a binary. A roof a buyer cannot insure affordably is a roof that reduces your buyer pool.
- Flood zone and flood history.
- Both. The mapped zone sets the required insurance, and a history of taking water is a disclosure item that buyers price.
- Slab condition.
- Movement is common in this soil. Progressive movement and a level house are two very different valuations.
- Kitchens and bathrooms.
- Not because they are fashionable, but because they are what a financed buyer looks at when deciding whether they can move in without spending more.
- Drainage on the lot.
- Where the water goes when it rains hard, which in this parish it does.
- What actually closed nearby, recently.
- Not what is listed. Listings are asking prices and asking prices are opinions.
What happens after you send it
Three steps, no drip campaign
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He pulls the closed comparable sales
Homes near you that actually sold, recently, filtered to the ones that are genuinely like yours rather than merely nearby.
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You get your number within 24 hours
A range, the comparable sales behind it, and the reasoning, so you can check the work. If something is unclear he calls or texts first rather than guessing.
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If you want it sharper, he comes and looks
This is the step an automated estimate skips and the one that settles condition. A walk-through is free and takes about half an hour. If you decide not to sell, that is a perfectly good outcome and the numbers are still yours.
Or get both numbers
The listing figure and the as-is offer
If the house needs work, ask for both at once and compare them with the holding costs included. That is the only comparison that means anything.
Valuation questions
What a real valuation involves
How accurate is the number?
As accurate as the closed sales behind it. It is built from comparable homes that actually sold near you, recently, adjusted line by line for size, age, condition and updates, and it arrives with those sales attached so you can check the reasoning. The more you tell us in the second step, the tighter the range. A walk-through tightens it further, because condition is the one thing no record shows.
Why is there no instant estimate on this page?
Because in Louisiana an instant figure is mostly a guess. Louisiana is a non-disclosure state, so the price a house sold for is not required to be made public, and the automated models behind instant estimates are missing the one number they need most. They also cannot see a flood history, a roof that is near the end of its life or a slab that has moved. A figure that arrives in a second and is off by thirty thousand dollars costs more than one that takes a day and is right.
What happens after I submit the request?
Chris pulls the closed comparable sales for your address and sends your number within 24 hours, with the sales it rests on. If something about the house is unclear, he calls or texts first rather than guessing. If you would like the number sharpened, a walk-through takes about half an hour and is also free.
Does the valuation cost anything?
No. The valuation is free, there is nothing to sign to get one, and the comparable sales are yours to keep whatever you decide. There is no fee later either: it is not a paid appraisal and it is not billed against a future listing.
Am I obligated to list or sell afterwards?
No. There is no obligation to list, to sell, or to take a call you do not want. Plenty of these end with somebody deciding to stay put for another year, which is a perfectly good outcome. If you do sell, you are free to take the same numbers to any agent you like.
Check it yourself
Sources and offices you can use directly
Everything on this page is checkable against a public source. These are the ones behind it.
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Verify a license
Louisiana licenses are public record. Search a license number before you sign anything with any agent, including this one.
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FEMA flood maps
The current flood zone for a specific address, from the source. Zones vary lot by lot and the maps are revised.
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IRS
The federal rules on capital gains, the primary residence exclusion, depreciation recapture and like-kind exchanges. Talk to a CPA about your own numbers.
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REALTOR® standards
The code of ethics a REALTOR® is bound by, and what the 2024 changes to buyer representation actually require.
Related
Where to go next
The pages most people read after this one.
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Listing with a REALTOR®
Pricing, prep, marketing and what a traditional sale nets.
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Prep to sell
Which repairs pay for themselves in this market and which never do.
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Listing versus cash
The full arithmetic on one house, three ways, with the assumptions written down.
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About Nexus
Why one business does both sides, and how the conflict is handled.
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Selling a rental
Occupied or empty, and what the recorded lease does to the sale.