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Most sellers are looking at somewhere between 75 and 100 days from the decision to list to a funded close. That comes from stacking the pieces: two to four weeks of pre-market prep, roughly 29 days on the market to an accepted offer, and another 30 to 45 days in escrow. That’s assuming the deal…
California home sellers generally must disclose known material defects and deliver the forms that apply to the transaction. For most one-to-four-unit residential resales, that includes a Transfer Disclosure Statement and Natural Hazard Disclosure, with a federal lead disclosure for most homes built before 1978. Exemptions exist, and some properties trigger additional forms based on age,…
Pre-foreclosure is the period after a Notice of Default is recorded and before the trustee sale, while the homeowner still holds title and may be able to sell, reinstate, or pursue a lender-approved alternative. A completed nonjudicial foreclosure is the trustee sale that transfers the property to the successful bidder and ends the owner’s pre-sale…
A distressed property is a home that is difficult or impossible to sell through a conventional, financed sale because of a problem with the property or the situation around it. These problems fall into four categories: condition (deferred maintenance or damage), finances (foreclosure or liens), title (probate or ownership disputes), and occupancy (non-paying tenants or…
You can sell a house with termite history, and the path forward depends on what the report says and how much of the repair scope you want to handle before listing. We’ve worked through a lot of deals across Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Orange counties where a pest report was already…
Most established-occupant removals in California require a court case, not a lock change. After an attorney confirms the occupant’s status and the correct notice, the usual path is notice, an unlawful detainer filing if the person stays, a judgment and Writ of Possession, and a sheriff-supervised lockout. I’m Andrea Van Soest, licensed real estate agent (California…
Yes, you can sell a house with a title issue in California, and most deals close. A title issue is anything in the ownership record, a lien, an heir gap, or a recording error, that has to be cleared before a clean transfer. How much equity is in the property usually decides whether it slows…
Most sellers we talk to are carrying a mortgage when they call, and the question they’re usually asking is whether that blocks the sale. It doesn’t, the loan gets paid from the closing proceeds, and whatever’s left after the payoff and costs is the seller’s. What Happens to the Mortgage at Closing A lot of…
Most sellers with a water-damaged property can sell without fully remediating first, and most of the conversations we have on these deals end with sellers realizing they had more options than they thought going in. We’ve bought water-damaged properties across Southern California, and the situations we’ve seen have looked different every time. We’ve walked in…
On the cash deals I’ve run, the close typically lands in the three-to-five-week range from signed contract to funded wire, with the cleanest deals coming in around three weeks. That runs a little longer than the seven-to-fourteen-day national benchmark Redfin reports for cash sales, because the preliminary title report and county recording still set the pace even…
