Trust Sales
A California successor trustee can usually sell without court. What escrow needs, what beneficiaries ask for, and how to document the price.
Start with the guide
Selling a House From a Trust: What a Successor Trustee Needs on Paper
10 min read
- 01Is it harder to sell a house that is in a trust?
- 02Paper 1: authority to sign
- 03Paper 2: proof the house is in the trust
- 04Paper 3: the notification to beneficiaries and heirs
- 05Paper 4: the price file, the one beneficiaries ask about
- 06Paper 5: signatures from people who live somewhere else
- 07Escrow's tax paperwork
- 08A trust sale is not a trustee's sale
- 09When listing serves the trust better
- 10What this looks like in practice
- 11Where to go next
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