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How do insurance companies determine the value of a house?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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The value the home based on the cost to rebuild what you have. The pricing of homes for sale in the neighborhood have nothing to do with it. Even in a depressed real estate market the construction costs have not varied much if at all.

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