Home value

Two ways to understand what your home may be worth.

An automated estimate can give you a quick starting point. A personal assessment adds the things an algorithm cannot see — condition, improvements, location, current competition and the way buyers are responding to comparable homes.

Request a Personal Home Assessment Or start with an automated estimate

For homes on Chicago’s North Shore and well beyond. Lisa Finks, Lourdes Arencibia and Carolyn Duris are independently licensed Compass agents who collaborate. Each represents her own clients.

Personal Home Assessment

A closer look at your actual home

We review the property, relevant recent sales, current competition and the details that can materially affect value.

Requesting an assessment does not commit you to listing your home or scheduling an appointment.

Personal Home Assessment (Home Valuation)
Recent renovations, an addition, unusual features or anything else that may be useful context.
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Automated estimate

Want a quick starting point?

Enter your address for an automated estimate based on available property and market data.

Entering it opens the Home Value Leads page in a new tab, where you add your contact details before the estimate is produced.

Your address and contact details are used to prepare your estimate and to follow up. The estimate is produced by Home Value Leads, a third-party service. Privacy Policy.

Automated estimates are useful starting points, but they may not reflect renovations, condition, lot characteristics or the most relevant recent sales.

How we look at value

What a personal assessment takes into account.

An automated estimate starts from records and recorded sales. A personal assessment starts from the house — and from the choices a buyer actually has when it comes to market.

  • The home itself

    Condition, updates, layout and features — including work that may not appear in public records.

  • The street and setting

    Location can affect value materially, even within the same community.

  • Comparable sales

    The sales buyers are actually likely to compare, rather than every nearby sale.

  • Current competition

    What a buyer can choose instead right now, at a similar price.

  • Market timing

    Inventory, demand and recent buyer behavior.

  • Preparation

    Whether anything is genuinely worth doing before coming to market — and what is better left alone.

Market Ready Concierge

Sometimes the question is not only what it is worth today.

Preparation can affect both how a property is received and what buyers are willing to pay. Before recommending work, we look at whether the likely benefit justifies the cost and effort.

Explore Market Ready Concierge

What happens next

A simple process, with no obligation.

  1. Tell us about the property

    A few basics and anything you think matters.

  2. We review the market

    Relevant sales, competition and the property itself.

  3. We follow up with context

    A useful view of value and, when appropriate, what may be worth doing before you sell.

A personal assessment is a real estate market assessment, not an appraisal. Requesting one does not commit you to listing your home or scheduling an appointment.

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Know where you stand before deciding what comes next.

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