Sell a House in Probate in Pompano Beach, FL

The estate is open in the probate division of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, a case number sits on every letter, and the house in Palm Aire or Pompano Beach Highlands keeps paying taxes, insurance and dues while the file moves. If you are the personal representative, the person the court appointed to act for the estate, you may be unsure what you are allowed to sign and when. If the estate is small enough for summary administration, there is no personal representative at all, and the court's order is what moves the title. Either way the Broward County court's clock, not a buyer's, sets the earliest closing date.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys houses from estates in Broward County probate and prepares the buyer's side early: the visit, a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, a contract written subject to the court's authority, and the proof of funds the estate's attorney will ask for. Then we wait for the court without pressure and close within days of the letters or the order. This page explains the two Florida routes, who signs under each, what the title company needs, and how the sale runs for a Pompano Beach estate.

In formal administration the court appoints a personal representative and issues letters of administration, the document that proves that person's authority to act for the estate. If the will grants a power of sale, the personal representative can usually sign a contract and a deed for estate property without a separate order, with the estate's attorney guiding the steps. If the will is silent, or there is no will, a petition and a court order authorizing the sale may be needed. Homestead property is a special case: Florida gives a surviving spouse and minor children protections in the home, and the title company will check for them before it insures the sale. The attorney and the title company together tell you which path your estate is on.

Summary administration is Florida's shorter route. It applies when the estate, less exempt property such as the protected homestead, is $150,000 or less for deaths on or after July 1, 2026, $75,000 for earlier deaths, or when the person has been dead more than two years regardless of value. A will that directs formal administration can bar it. There is no personal representative. The petition is e-filed through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal with the Broward Clerk's Probate & Guardianship office at 201 SE 6th Street, 3rd floor, and the court's order itself conveys the house to the people it names. Those people then sign the sale. We can sign a contract with them while the petition is pending and close once the order is entered.

To insure a probate sale the title company usually wants the death certificate, the letters of administration or the summary administration order, the will if one exists (Florida requires it to be deposited with the clerk within 10 days of learning of the death), a homestead determination where the house was the decedent's home, confirmation that the sale is authorized, and the signatures of the personal representative or the named heirs. It searches the county's official records at 115 S Andrews Avenue for mortgages, tax balances and liens and orders payoffs. We work with the title company and the estate's attorney directly so the family is not chasing documents, and we flag early anything that will take time, such as a missing heir or an out-of-state estate.

Speed in a probate sale comes from doing the buyer's part at the start and the court's part once. We inspect the house, give a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and sign a contract that is expressly subject to the court's authority. That gives the attorney a real sale to present, locks the price for the estate, and removes the financed-buyer risk that a listing carries. The closing date is set to follow the letters or the order, not to race them. The estate pays no commission, and Pompano Beach Cash Buyers pays the customary closing costs, so the price in the contract is the number the estate works from.

Pompano Beach houses have a median year built of 1974, and a vacant one is hard to insure; the Citizens average premium for Broward is $2,916 for 2026. Property taxes become delinquent April 1, and a tax certificate can be sold on the unpaid balance by June 1. If the estate's property is a Palm Aire condo, the dues continue and any special assessment already levied is a debt of the unit; the association's estoppel certificate, the statement of what the unit owes, must be delivered within 10 business days of the request. Listing after probate adds roughly two to three months of marketing in a market with about seven months of supply. A sale that is ready when the court is stops those costs sooner.

Send the address, the case number if one exists, and the attorney's name. We visit within a day or two, with a key, a neighbor or the personal representative, and give a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. If the estate accepts, we provide the contract and proof of funds, the title company opens its file, and everyone waits for the court. Heirs who live in Deerfield Beach or in another state sign with a mobile notary where they are. At closing the title company pays the mortgage, taxes and liens from the price and wires the estate's net as the order or the personal representative directs in writing. No repairs, no showings, no cleanout: the house sells as it is.

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