Sell an Inherited House in Pompano Beach, FL

The deed to the house in Cresthaven or Kendall Green still carries your parent's name. The tax bill, the insurance renewal and the lawn service are now yours to handle, but the authority to sign a deed is not automatic. In Broward County that authority usually comes from the probate division of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, which sits in the Central Courthouse at 201 SE 6th Street in Fort Lauderdale. If there was a will, Florida requires whoever holds it to deposit it with the clerk within 10 days of learning of the death. Heirs settling a Pompano Beach estate from another state often learn these steps one phone call at a time.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys inherited houses from heirs and estates across Pompano Beach and North Broward as they stand: a roof from the 1970s, a garage holding a lifetime, a kitchen nobody updated. We give a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, sign with the heirs or the personal representative, and close within days of the court's order or letters. This page explains what the deed tells you, when probate is required, the shorter summary route, what happens to the homestead tax benefits, and where the money goes at closing.

Start with the deed, which is recorded with the county's Records, Taxes and Treasury Division at 115 S Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. If your parent owned the house jointly with right of survivorship, the surviving owner already holds it. If the house sits in a living trust, the successor trustee signs under the trust. If your parent signed a lady-bird deed, the enhanced life estate deed Florida uses to name who receives a home at death, the named person owns it now and the house skips probate. If the deed shows your parent's name alone, the estate needs an order from the circuit court in Fort Lauderdale before anyone can sign a sale. A will does not skip that step; it tells the court who inherits.

Florida offers two routes. Summary administration is a short court proceeding, not an out-of-court affidavit, and its order can transfer the house itself, including the protected homestead. It is available when the estate, excluding exempt property such as the homestead, is $150,000 or less for deaths on or after July 1, 2026, $75,000 for earlier deaths, or when the death was more than two years ago regardless of value. A will that directs formal administration can bar it. Formal administration is the longer route: the court appoints a personal representative, the person authorized to act for the estate, and issues letters of administration. With a power of sale in the will the personal representative can usually sign a sale; otherwise the estate's attorney may need a court order. The attorney decides which route fits.

Your parent's homestead exemption removed $25,000 of value from all property taxes and another $25,000, on value between $50,000 and $75,000, from non-school taxes. The Save Our Homes cap held the assessed value to 3 percent growth a year, or the CPI change if lower. A surviving spouse keeps those benefits. An heir who does not move in and file a new homestead application does not, and when the house sells the cap resets to market value the January 1 after the sale. On a Pompano Beach house held since the 1970s, the gap between the capped value and market value can be large. The Broward County Property Appraiser at 115 S Andrews Avenue, Room 111, can tell you what the next bill will look like.

Pompano Beach's median year built is 1974, so the roof is the first question any insurer asks. Under Florida law a carrier may require an inspection on a roof 15 years or older, and the state-backed Citizens average premium for Broward is $2,916 for 2026. Listing the house means roughly two to three months on the market in a city with about seven months of supply, then a financed buyer's inspection and repair requests, then a commission of around $23,000 on a median-priced sale. Every month in between, the estate pays taxes, insurance and lawn care on an empty house. A cash sale takes the roof, the showings and the commission off the estate's list.

Siblings do not always want the same thing. One wants to keep the house in Old Pompano, one wants it sold, one lives in New Jersey. A written cash offer turns the argument into a number everyone can look at. Nobody has to travel to Pompano Beach: we can view the house with a neighbor, a key or a lockbox, send the offer by email, and the title company arranges a mobile notary wherever each heir or the personal representative lives. If your parent's main estate is being probated in another state, a Florida attorney opens an ancillary administration here using those papers. We can sign with the estate before that step is finished and close when the Broward order is entered.

At closing the proceeds go to the estate, not to any one heir. The title company pays off any mortgage, past-due property taxes and recorded liens from the purchase price, so the estate's net is the price minus those payoffs. Pompano Beach Cash Buyers pays the customary closing costs and there is no commission. The balance is wired to the estate's account or divided exactly as the court's order or the personal representative directs in writing. To start, send us the address, the date of death and the name of the estate's attorney if one has been hired. We visit within a day or two, give a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and provide the contract and proof of funds the attorney will ask for. Closing can follow within days of the court's authority.

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