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Seller Guides
- Home Selling ProcessHow a home sale in Orange County actually goes, from choosing an agent and signing the listing through disclosures, escrow, closing costs and the recorded deed.
- Professional PhotographyWhy listing photographs decide whether a buyer opens your home online, how the images build a listing's reach, and the CRMLS rules on labelling and editing them.
- Offers & NegotiationHow offers reach you, how to compare and counter them, when your acceptance creates a contract, and what the buyer's deposit secures if the sale falls apart.
- Escrow & Closing ProcessWhat escrow is under California law, what gets recorded at closing, what the Franchise Tax Board and the IRS withhold, and what an Orange County seller pays.
- After You SellWhat happens after your Orange County home sale closes: the loan release, the money California held back, the forms that arrive, and the tax you file in April.
- Seller FAQsThe questions California sellers ask most, answered in plain English: disclosures, selling with a tenant in place, state withholding, transfer tax, your gain and probate.
Seller Strategies
- Market AnalysisWhat comparable homes near you have sold for, how close to asking they went and how long they took. Choose your market and we will send the current numbers.
- Luxury Home SellingSelling a high-value Orange County home: what the 2026 loan limit changes, who can buy it, how private you can keep it, and what closing and taxes cost.
- Move-Up SellingSelling one Orange County home and buying another: how to pick the order, which contingency protects you, what a lender counts, and what Proposition 19 does to your taxes.
- DownsizingSelling a larger Orange County home? Proposition 19 can move your property tax base to the next one. Who qualifies, what it costs, and how to claim it.
- Off-Market OptionsWhat an Orange County seller can keep off the MLS, how CRMLS Registered and Coming Soon status work, what each choice costs you in buyers, and what you sign.
- Timeline PlanningEvery deadline in a California home sale: the three day disclosure clock, contingency periods, probate confirmation, and the 45 and 180 day exchange dates.
Situations & Results
- Probate & Trust SalesHow an inherited Orange County home is sold out of a probate estate or a trust: full and limited authority, the 90 percent floor, the confirmation hearing and the overbid.
- Divorce SalesSelling a house during a California divorce: who has to sign, what the court order stops, how the money splits, and how the home sale tax exclusion works.
- 1031 Exchange GuidanceHow a California investment property qualifies for a 1031 exchange, how the 45 and 180 day clocks run, who may hold your money, and what California still wants filed.
- Relocation ServicesSelling an Orange County home and leaving California: what the state still taxes, what escrow withholds, the gain you keep, moving costs and Proposition 19.
- Just Sold HighlightsWho may claim a closed sale, when the price can be published, what a just sold card must disclose, and what TEAMIRI can prove about its own record in Orange County.
TEAMIRI is a real estate team, not a law firm, tax advisor or accountancy practice, and nothing here is legal or tax advice. Statutes, forms and figures below are quoted from the body that publishes them, with the date each was read. Confirm how any of it applies to your own sale with a qualified attorney or tax professional before relying on it.