Tight numbers.
Right decisions.
Twenty-plus years of New Jersey residential appraisal experience, applied to the moments where the number matters most — a sale, a divorce, a probate, a tax appeal, or a parent's move out of the family home.
An agent gives you an opinion. A licensed appraiser gives you a defensible number.
Most real estate agents can run a market analysis. Very few of them are also a New Jersey-licensed residential appraiser. Cardwell Thaxton is both — which means the value he puts in front of you, an attorney, a lender, or a tax board has to hold up to USPAP standards, not just a hunch about the market.
Independent
Every appraisal is performed to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice — no conflict of interest, no shortcuts, no borrowed numbers from someone else's research.
Local
Two decades of comparable sales, block by block, across Mercer, Gloucester, Camden, and Burlington counties. That local depth is what a national AVM can't replicate.
Personal
Appraisals get ordered during some of the hardest moments in a person's life — a death, a divorce, a parent's decline. You get treated like a person going through it, not a file number.
Appraisal services for the moments that actually need one
Pre-Listing Appraisals
Price it right the first time, backed by an independent number instead of a guess.
Learn more →Estate & Date-of-Death
Retroactive valuations for probate, estate tax, and dividing what a family leaves behind.
Learn more →Divorce Appraisals
A defensible, unbiased value both sides — and the court — can rely on.
Learn more →Tax Assessment Appeals
Think your township overvalued your home? Here's how to prove it.
Learn more →Relocation Appraisals
Corporate-relocation-grade reporting, done to the standard your HR department expects.
Learn more →See All Services
Foreclosure/REO, investment property, expert witness & litigation support, and more.
Full list →Downsizing, probate, and moving a parent aren't just transactions.
As a Seniors Real Estate Specialist® (SRES®) and a residential appraiser, Cardwell works with older homeowners and their adult children through the specific, often emotional work of selling a longtime home — whether that's a move to be closer to family, a transition into senior living, or settling an estate after a loss.
See how this works →Families come to this work needing:
- An honest, unbiased number on the family home
- Help navigating probate and date-of-death valuation requirements
- A partner who explains things once, patiently, and again if needed
- Trusted referrals — elder law attorneys, movers, estate liquidators — vetted, not googled
Every report is built to the standard that holds up
New Jersey State-Licensed Residential Real Estate Appraiser · REALTOR®, Keller Williams · Seniors Real Estate Specialist® (SRES®) · 20+ years appraising, 13 years as a REALTOR®.
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