That valuation walks the home in person, documents improvements room by room, and compares against genuinely similar sales rather than a generic city average, so a finished basement, an updated kitchen or a permitted secondary suite gets credited rather than missed.
From there, pricing and marketing are built around the seller's actual timeline, often a retirement, health or family transition with a real deadline attached, rather than a generic 90-day marketing plan that assumes an open-ended seller.
That starting point is what a hand-reviewed valuation is for. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.