Selling a Home

28 articles on pricing, prepping, and selling a home for the most money.

Selling Your Home and Capital Gains: How the Home Sale Tax Exclusion Works

You’ll learnHow gain is calculated from your amount realized and adjusted basis

The Listing Agreement, Explained: What You're Signing When You Hire an Agent to Sell

You’ll learnThe three common types of listing agreements and how they differ

Full MLS, Coming Soon or Office Exclusive? How Sellers Choose How Their Home Is Marketed

You’ll learnWhat the MLS does and how listings reach public home search sites

Living in Your Home While It's for Sale: Showings, Security and Everyday Life

You’ll learnHow to set showing notice, windows, access and feedback with your agent

Selling an Inherited Home: Probate, Taxes and the Decisions Heirs Face

You’ll learnWho has the authority to sell, and how probate, trusts and other transfers differ

Selling a Home You've Already Moved Out Of: Risks, Costs and How to Manage Them

You’ll learnWhat selling vacant makes easier, and what it makes harder

Selling a Home With Tenants in Place: What Owners Should Know Before Listing

You’ll learnWhy a sale usually doesn't end an existing lease, and who that means can buy

Assumable Mortgages: How Taking Over a Seller's Loan Actually Works

You’ll learnWhich loan types are generally assumable, and why most conventional loans aren't

Seller Closing Costs: How to Estimate Your Net Proceeds

You’ll learnWhy your mortgage payoff is higher than your statement balance, and what else to check, like HELOCs and prepayment penalties

Pre-Listing Home Inspection: Is It Worth It for Sellers?

You’ll learnWhat a pre-listing home inspection gives you: time, repair quotes, and a choice to fix, price in, credit, or disclose

Selling a Vacation Home: What's Different From Selling Your Primary Residence

You’ll learnWhy a second home usually falls outside the primary-residence capital gains exclusion, and how past depreciation can be recaptured at sale

Selling As-Is: What It Really Means and When It Makes Sense

You’ll learnWhy an as-is sale is a position on repairs rather than a waiver of the seller's duty to disclose known material defects