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Making the Most of Probate Sales: How Real Estate Agents Can Benefit from Working with Motivated Sellers in California

Losing your parents is difficult enough. Imagine finding out that their assets will have to be probated, and the process is going to be lengthy and costly. Most heirs will need support and guidance during this process. While attorneys provide legal support, real estate agents will typically handle the sale process.

In addition, imagine an adult child living in a different, far-away state, say, New York or Florida. The distance makes handling the sale of the home even more challenging, so the heir will definitely need a trusted local real estate expert.

For California real estate agents, there is a lot of money to be made helping heirs in probate

According to some predictions, median Southern California home prices (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties) will fall 10% in 2023. And then, another article made rounds on social media stating that 37% of real estate agents in the US couldn’t afford to pay their rent in November of 2022.

Are things this bad? Probably not, but there’s no doubt that the real estate market keeps changing. As always, the most creative and resilient real estate professionals are best prepared to weather the storm. If you haven’t thought about it yet, perhaps 2023 is when you should consider working with heirs in probate.

Probates Daily: How to Get Probate Leads in Your Inbox

Probate is a lucrative and often overlooked niche, especially in the hot, competitive real estate market. When real estate agents talk about inventory shortage, what they mean is that demand (buyers wanting to buy a home) is higher than supply (sellers willing to sell their home).

Probate does not depend on external market forces—people die, heirs inherit their homes and many of them end up selling the property. Keep reading to learn how California real estate professionals and investors can get new probate lead alerts in their inboxes.

Probate Leads in Sacramento and Fresno Counties

More coverage, more leads! Probate Money has just added two more counties -- Sacramento and Fresno. In total, we cover 11 counties with data coming from all of their courthouses!

This is good news for real estate agents and investors in Northern California. Lately, we have expanded our probate lead service to Alameda, San Mateo, and San Francisco Counties. Previously, we have offered fresh probate leads in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Orange Counties.

Now Available: Probate Leads for Four More Counties (Alameda, San Francisco, San Joaquin, and San Mateo)

We are pleased to let the California real estate community know that we have just added four Northern California counties to our list of supported areas. From now on, you can search and download probate cases filed in Alameda, San Francisco, San Joaquin, and San Mateo. Our probate lead platform already has been providing data for five Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego.