paired sales

paired sales

An appraisal technique used to find the value of a particular feature within a property, such as a two-car garage.If the appraiser can find two recently sold houses that are virtually identical except that one has a two-car garage and one does not, these are called paired sales. If the two-car garage is the only significant difference in the two,then the difference in the sale price must be attributable to the garage.In that manner,one may assign a value to a two-car garage.As a result, when employing the comparable sales method of appraising a house, the appraiser may confidently assign values to the various features that differ in the house under consideration from the houses that sold recently.