How much is my Surry Hills home worth?

By David Servi

Estimating the value of real estate is as much an art as a science.

The intelligent Surry Hills property appraisal should take into account a number of factors. Then the savvy property-owner can assess them all, accord them various weightings according to their importance, consider external variables carefully (the state of the market, interest rate trends, weather fluctuations and so on) and after thinking long and hard … call in a professional real estate agent.

Spencer & Servi real estate agents have been working in the field of selling, buying and letting Surry Hills properties for decades. They know the ins and outs of just about every block in the suburb, how much that dilapidated two-storey terrace on the corner sold for 15 years ago, when the single-storey terrace across the road was renovated, and the best apartments in that Surry Hills apartment block.

A Spencer & Servi real estate agent can provide a rapid and realistic property appraisal of your home, a fairly accurate estimate of how much your house or apartment might sell for, an idea of market trends and a recommendation for an auction strategy. All this for free.

As well as an estimation of the worth of your Surry Hills house or your Surry Hills apartment as it stands, a Spencer & Servi real estate agent can advise on how to best and most cost-effectively increase the potential selling price of your property by enhancing its appeal to potential buyers. Adding worth can be easy and inexpensive.

It might be with a new coat of paint in certain interior rooms, or a reinvigoration of the back garden, or by having an unsightly partition removed, or with the addition of a strategic door, or perhaps by reassessing the configuration of your home – changing a dining room into a bedroom, for instance.

With decades of experience between them, years and years of walking the streets of Surry Hills; visiting Surry Hills properties and talking to Surry Hills clients, Spencer & Servi real estate agents know the district inside out; what is selling and why, what the buyers want, how and where the new light rail is affecting property prices, and what will happen to those very same prices when the construction has finally finished and the trams are running.

Spencer & Servi real estate agents are the real estate agents in Surry Hills, with headquarters in Crown Street, across from the Clock Hotel, smack in the middle of the suburb.

Spencer & Servi’s director, David Servi, understands Surry Hills property as though it was a close relative of his; one he has lived with for decades, for most of his life.

He loves it, the quirky alleys, the tree-lined boulevards, the pretty streets, but he knows it has strengths and weaknesses. He knows the factors that will depress property values in Surry Hills, the variables that affect a house price and when to seize the moment and put a Surry Hills property up for sale. He knows when the media are simply bloviating, and when they’re really onto something.

David Servi, and all the Spencer & Servi real estate agents, know Surry Hills.