What Is My Home Worth?
A free written valuation for your Newton or Greater Boston home — with the comparable sales it was built from.
Maggie Li & Co provides a free, no-obligation written home valuation for homes in Newton and across Greater Boston. It is built from recent comparable sales in your specific village or neighborhood — not a citywide average — and you see the comparables we used and how we got to the range. Most take a couple of business days. Request one below, or call (774) 222-0952.
Request your free valuation
Tell us about the property and we will send a written range with the comparables behind it.
What goes into a real valuation?
A number without reasoning behind it is not useful, so every valuation is built from the same five inputs and shows its work.
- Comparable sales — recent closings of genuinely similar homes in your village or neighborhood, not a town-wide average
- Condition and updates — what has been renovated, when, and how well it reads to a buyer
- Lot and position — size, orientation, privacy, grade, and what is next door
- Current inventory — what a buyer could choose instead of your home this month
- Layout and usable space — square footage matters less than whether the floor plan works
Why do online estimates miss in Newton?
Automated valuation models average across a geography. That works reasonably well in a subdivision of similar houses and poorly in Newton, where thirteen villages sit inside one city boundary and prices between them differ enough that the citywide average describes almost nobody's home.
They also cannot see the things that actually move a Newton sale: whether the kitchen was renovated five years ago or twenty, how the house sits on its lot, whether the finished basement is dry, what the street is like at 8am. Treat an online estimate as a starting point and nothing more — the gap between it and a real range is frequently large in both directions.
What happens after you get the number?
Whatever you want to happen. Some people list. Some decide the timing is wrong and check back in a year. Some find out the number is higher than they expected and start looking at what it would buy elsewhere.
If you do want to go further, the seller's guide walks through the whole process from preparation to closing, and how we market a listing covers what happens once it goes live. If you own an older home on a larger lot, it is also worth knowing what it is worth to a townhome developer — that is often a different number.
Where we provide valuations
All thirteen Newton villages, plus Wellesley, Weston, Needham, Brookline, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, Concord, Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston neighborhoods including Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and Fenway. The area guides cover each one in detail.
Home valuation questions
Nothing, and there is no obligation to list afterward. A written valuation is how a listing conversation normally starts, and plenty of people request one, look at the number, and decide to wait a year. That is a perfectly good outcome.
Usually a couple of business days. Comparable sales have to be pulled and read rather than averaged, and in most cases we want to see the home — either in person or over video — before putting a range in writing. If you need something faster, call (774) 222-0952 and say so.
Automated valuations work from public records and broad geographic averages, and both break down in Newton. The thirteen villages differ enough in price that a citywide average describes almost no individual home, and the algorithms cannot see condition, renovation quality, layout, or lot orientation. They are a reasonable starting point and a poor basis for a pricing decision.
Not necessarily. We can produce a range from records, photographs, and comparable sales alone. A walkthrough narrows that range considerably, because condition and finish level are usually the difference between the top and bottom of it — but if you would rather not have anyone in the house yet, say so and we will work from what you can send.
The address, the approximate square footage and bedroom and bathroom count, anything you have renovated and roughly when, and any known issues. If you have a recent appraisal or the listing sheet from when you bought, those help. None of it is required to get started.
No. You will get the valuation and a conversation about it if you want one. Your details are not sold or shared, and if you say you are a year out we will leave you alone until you are.
Then the valuation should say so, with an estimate of what the work is worth. Not every improvement returns its cost, and part of the job is telling you which projects to skip. In some cases the right answer is to sell as-is and price for it.
Would you rather just talk?
A five-minute call is often faster than a form, and you will get a sense of the range on the spot.