Admittedly, real estate has gotten very complicated in recent years. I have two brothers who are real estate appraisers and other family members and friends who are connected to real estate and the one common thing they all say is that everything is about price these days. My appraiser brothers say that just about all the orders they get are for foreclosures and the few sales they are seeing are priced below market value. This is in Virginia which hasn't been hit particularly hard as compared to some areas. The best advice we got when selling our house last summer was to look at all the comparables then make sure ours looked better and was priced lower. It worked for us because we sold our house in 2 weeks even though we didn't have a lot of lookers. If you trust your realtor, you should take their advice. If you don't trust that their motives are in your best interest then you should get another realtor. Good luck!
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