Is it necessary to contact appraisers while selling real estate

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A few years ago, the State Property Fund of Ukraine announced the launch of an automatic real estate valuation service. It was planned that every citizen can go to the site, enter the parameters of the property and receive a certificate in electronic form. This certificate should have indicated the automatically calculated value of the property, as well as the access password for verification by the notary. So almost any interested person can allegedly get a certificate of the value of his real estate free of charge and relatively simply and immediately go with him to re-register the right of ownership to a notary. But did it come out the way it wanted to be? Let’s find out.

We decided to apply for comments and explanations to two active participants of the evaluation market in Ukraine, who occupy the first positions in the search results for the following queries: "expert evaluation", "property evaluation", "real estate evaluation", "apartment evaluation", etc. Thus, we received comments on the work of the SPFU base from the appraisal companies of Real Expert (RealExpert.UA) and Ocenka.UA. The following is a direct speech.

Any interested person can really use the free evaluation service. In this case, only the presence of an electronic signature is decisive. The user of this automatic evaluation module may not have any relation to the real estate object for which he orders and receives a certificate.

In itself, the idea of free evaluation is very good. It aims to solve two problems at once:

Admittedly, there is really more order in the market. However, there is a problem with the fact that in some cases the automatic module incorrectly displays the value of the property. And then the owners are forced to