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What is a Probate Sale? Answering 4 Big Questions About This Tricky Transaction

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You’re interested in buying a house, and someone told you about probate sales. But — if you’re being honest — you really have no idea what a probate sale is or how it works. What is a probate sale? You vaguely understand that these can provide opportunities for a bargain. We’ll walk you through it.

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Opinion: What agents should know about selling probate real estate

Real Trends

For those seeking real estate investment opportunities, probate sales offer a unique and often overlooked niche. By understanding probate real estate and its intricacies, savvy investors can unlock potential gains while assisting families in the difficult process of settling an estate.

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What Happens to a House in Probate? 3 Common Paths for Estate Property

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A house can avoid probate if it’s automatically passed on to survivors via a living trust , joint ownership , community property law , or transfer-on-death deed. So what happens to a house in probate? Other times the personal representative of the estate (also known as the executor) will need to sell the house with probate oversight.

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How to Grow Your Real Estate Business: 11 Tips + 1 to Avoid

The Close

I’m sharing 11 tips from my years of sales and coaching on how real estate agents grow their businesses. Every month, this agent tries a new lead generation strategy, jumping from one tool to the next without seeing the process bloom into a sale. In recent years, the real estate market has constantly changed.

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The Role of a Probate Realtor® And When You Need One

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Simply put, if you’re trying to buy or sell a home, and the home’s owner died without a clear trust, you may need to start looking for a probate real estate agent to help you through the process. Here we’ll explain how probate home sales work, as well as the actions you can take if you need to start a probate sale.

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How to Sell a Haunted House Like Any Other Home on the Market

HomeLight

The former was the case for Nancy Sanborn , a real estate agent in the LA area with nearly 40 years of experience, when she got hired to sell what she thought was a regular old probate listing in a wealthy LA neighborhood in 2016. That was December of 1959, yet rumors swirled for decades to come.

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Stop Waiting! Here’s How to Find New Inventory When It Seems Like None Exists

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Anthony Marguleas has a handful of ideas to help you and your buyers go out and find homes for sale, rather than waiting for them to hit the MLS. This year, his team was number 24 in sales volume among medium-sized teams. How do you serve your buyers when inventory is as tight as it is today? We don’t like to wait. I bet it is.

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