The Real Way to Find Your Twin Cities Home Value

By Mark Callender

Hello, my name is Mark Callender and I am a licensed real estate agent with RE/MAX Results. Because I have been helping families buy and sell their homes for more than 18 years, I am now helping their children to buy their first homes and their parents to downsize. No matter the direction you’re moving, my goal is to make the process as calm and enjoyable as it can be.

Do you know what your home is actually worth? A lot of people don’t, and we get it. Most folks hop on Zillow or Realtor.com, pull up an algorithm’s guess, and assume that number is close enough. The problem is that those sites have never set foot inside your home.

Online estimates miss what makes your home yours. Zillow and Realtor.com don’t know that you remodeled the kitchen, added a bathroom, or finished the basement into a family room. They’re running an algorithm on data pulled from the internet, not walking through the home you’ve actually lived in and improved.

An online estimate can’t see the condition of your home or the upgrades you’ve made since the last public record, which is why that number can be off by quite a bit on a home that’s been updated.

Twin Cities home values have leveled off. From April 2025 to April 2026 in the 7-county Twin Cities metro, home values held fairly steady, according to data from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors. After years of climbing, that kind of plateau is a real shift, and it’s one more reason a stale online number may not reflect where you actually stand today.

The market has changed for buyers and sellers. For so many years, sellers were in control of just about everything. That’s evened out. We’re seeing a more balanced market now, and buyers have more say than they’ve had in the last 15 years, to be perfectly honest. Knowing your real home value matters more in a shifting market like this one, whether you’re thinking about selling or just want to understand your equity.

There are a few ways we can help you find out. If you’re wondering where you stand, we can put together a free value report for you, and it’s very easy to do. There’s also a free Homebot tool we pay for on your behalf. You enter your information, and it generates a value estimate for your home. From there, we can take it further with a full market valuation, and if you really want an accurate picture, we can stop by your house in person and get you a strong idea of what your home is worth today.

If you have any questions, you know how to reach out. Call or text us at 612-961-9448, email us at mark@markcallenderhomes.com, or visit callenderhometeam.results.net. You can also get started right now with your free Homebot value report here. We’d love to help you find out what your home is really worth.