What is my home worth?

It is an estimate for homes like yours in your area, not a valuation of your particular house. In the United States the anchor is the Census Bureau's median value of owner-occupied homes in your ZIP code, carried forward to 2025 with the federal house price index for that ZIP code, scaled for your number of bedrooms and blended with what owners near you are asking per square foot. Elsewhere it is what owners of homes of your size are currently asking in your city, from BestFSBOGuide.com's own medians. The range shown is the honest width of that evidence. A property-level model that knows your lot, condition and upgrades, or a local agent's comparative market analysis, can be more precise. Zillow and Redfin report median errors of about 2% for homes already on the market and about 7% for homes that are not, by their own published figures.

No. An appraisal is an inspection and a written opinion of value by a licensed appraiser, and a lender will require one before a mortgage. This page gives a free statistical estimate from public data and owner asking prices, for your own planning. It is not an appraisal, a broker price opinion or advice to sell at a given price.

Two public US sources: the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2020-2024 five-year estimates of the median value of owner-occupied homes, for 30,011 ZIP code areas) and the FHFA House Price Index for ZIP codes (16,648 ZIP codes, with the three-digit area as the fallback), which carries the survey figure forward to 2025 and gives the one and five year trend. On top of those, BestFSBOGuide.com's own asking-price data: more than 40,000 US homes listed by their owners since June 18, 2026, and more than 75,000 owner-listed homes in 22 other countries, each counted once, with land and agent listings removed. The table further down shows them by country; the United States page has them by state.

Because there is no single selling price for a home until a buyer agrees one. Two similar homes on the same street sell for different amounts depending on condition, timing and the buyers in the market that month. A range tells you what the evidence supports; a single number would hide how wide that evidence is. In the United States the range widens where the Census sample for the ZIP code was small, and narrows a little when you give a size, because a second figure from owner asking prices in your area is added to the Census anchor; it never goes below 8% or above 20% either side of the midpoint. The reading of the home then narrows it further, held within 20% of that range.

Look at what homes like yours actually sold for nearby in the last three to six months, not what they were listed at, and adjust for size, condition and anything unusual about your lot or street. In many countries sale prices are public: county records in the United States, HM Land Registry in England and Wales, DVF in France, the Kadaster in the Netherlands. If you need a figure for a lender, a divorce or an estate, order an appraisal. If you are deciding on an asking price, three or four recent comparable sales will tell you more than any online model.

The agent's own fee on the sale, which this page calculates for your country on your estimate. In the United States that is typically about 2.75% for the listing side, $9,598 on the $349,000 that US owners are currently asking at the median; many sellers also pay the buyer's agent, which is negotiated separately. Elsewhere it runs from about 1% in parts of Asia to 6% and more with VAT in southern Europe and Latin America. What you still pay either way is the notary, lawyer or closing agent your country requires and any transfer tax.

No. The data figure is computed in your browser: the page reads the ZIP code, or the city, out of what you type, downloads the small data file for that area, and runs the arithmetic on your device. If you ask for the reading of the home, the street, postcode, city and the home facts are sent once to our server and to the model that writes the reading, then discarded; our server keeps only the country, the language and the timing. There is no account, email or phone number to give. If you later request the selling checklist, that form asks only for an email address and a country.

Yes, in every one of the 41 countries this site covers an owner may sell without an agent. What differs is the legal step that closes the sale: in most of continental Europe and Latin America a notary draws up the deed, in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and most of Canada each side has its own lawyer or conveyancer, in the United States a title or escrow company or an attorney closes, and in a few countries a registry does it with no professional at all. The page names the step for your country, and the country guides walk through it.