Welcome to B & W Appraisal Services, Inc.

We are a residential real estate appraisal firm that serves all of Orange and Los Angeles Counties and portions of Riverside,
San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties. B & W Appraisal Services, Inc. is dedicated to providing quality appraisal reports with superior customer service, professionalism, fast turn around times, and reasonable pricing.

We have two full time Certified Residential Appraisers (William Walsh and Robert Eynon) with a combined total of over 40 years
of full time real estate appraisal experience.

We also have an office staff that can be reached anytime during regular office hours – Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.

We specialize in luxury / custom homes in the following cities / areas: Newport Beach, Corona Del Mar, Dover Shores, Bayshores, Balboa Island, Balboa Peninsula, Lido Isle, Harbor Island, Newport Coast, Shady Canyon, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, Huntington Harbor, Sunset Beach, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Brentwood. We provide appraisals for the following purposes: Mortgage financing for purchase transactions, Mortgage financing for refinance transactions, Estate planning, Date of death, Tax assessments, PMI removal, Divorce, and Pre-sale valuations.

Our clients include lenders, mortgage brokers, buyers, sellers, attorneys, accountants, and private individuals. We are approved with most major lenders (including Chase Bank, Citibank, Citimortgage, B of A, Countrywide, Landsafe, Wells Fargo, First Federal Bank, Washington Mutual, Wachovia, Downey Savings, etc.).We are also approved for FHA Appraisals. We accept personal checks and all major credit cards for your convenience.

If you purchased a home between the years of 2004 and 2007, you may able to save thousands of dollars!

You can save money by reducing your property’s assessed value through the appraisal process.

For example:

If you bought your home for $600,000 in 2005,
your assessed value would be approximately $636,724 in 2008.
The Tax Assessor’s Office calculates this figure as follows:
$600,000 x 2% increase per year for 3 years = $636,724.

Your annual taxes for 2008 would then be $7,959.06 ($636,724 x .0125%).

If your property’s market value has decreased by 10% since the purchase in 2005,
your property would now be worth $540,000, because of this you should have your property appraised to have the tax assessor reduce the taxable value of your home.

Your annual property taxes would then be reduced to only $6,750.00 instead of $7,959.06.
That is an annual savings of over $1,200!

I will help you through the process of reducing your property taxes by doing the following:

1. I will review current sales in your area to determine if your market value has decreased.
2. I will complete a full appraisal on your property with the current market value.
3. I will complete the necessary applications for from the Tax Assessor’s Office.

The filing period for a reduction in property taxes is July 2, 2008 to September 15, 2008.
Don’t wait any longer. The cost for our service is only $400, which will more than pay off in the first year. Once your assessed value has been reduced, it can only increase by 2% per year, and in return your savings will continue for years to come.

Please call my office for more information and to determine if you qualify.

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