Start with an estimate. Don't price on one.
An automated value is a fine place to begin and a bad place to stop. Run yours below, then read why the number moves once someone actually looks at your house.
Why the real number is usually different.
An automated estimate works off public records and recent sales nearby. That's genuinely useful for a rough bracket. It's also blind to most of what decides your actual price.
- What you've done to the house since the last sale, and what you haven't.
- Which way the lot faces, what you look at, and what you hear.
- Whether the comparable sale down the street was a real market sale or a family deal.
- What's sitting unsold in your band right now, which is often the number that matters most.
That last one is the part I spend my week on. Two houses with the same estimate can sit in very different markets depending on band and town. Eliot and Portsmouth are a few minutes apart and behave nothing alike.
So use the estimate as a starting bracket. When you want the number you'd actually list at, that's a conversation with someone who has walked the house and read the current data for your specific band and town. That part I do for free, and it doesn't commit you to anything.