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Selling path

Land sells slower, and for reasons most agents cannot explain

Residential agents often list land the way they list houses and then it sits for a year. Access, zoning, utilities, perc, and survey drive the price. We route land to agents who actually sell land.

Term sheet

How this compares to the alternatives

Same four questions for every path. Read the row you care about across all three columns.

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Sell your land

Right for you if
you own vacant land, acreage, or an unbuildable lot.
What it costs you
Land commissions typically run higher than residential because the work is longer. Cash buyers discount heavily.
Realistic timeline
Land takes longer to sell than a house. A cash sale can close in about 2 weeks, depending on survey and title work.
What can go wrong
Mispricing. Without a survey, access confirmation, or perc test, buyers discount for unknowns you could have cleared cheaply.
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Find your Realtor

Right for you if
your house is in condition to list and you want the highest realistic price.
What it costs you
Standard local commission, paid at closing. CloseCenter costs you nothing — the agent pays us a referral fee out of their own commission, only when the home closes.
Realistic timeline
Time on market varies with price and condition, then closing usually runs a few weeks once you are under contract.
What can go wrong
The house sits. Price was wrong, condition was wrong, or the agent went quiet. That is what the 30-day review exists to catch.
Read about find your realtor →

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Creative selling

Right for you if
you have equity or a low-rate loan and can carry some risk for a better number.
What it costs you
Often full price or better, but proceeds arrive over months or years. Expect legal and servicing costs.
Realistic timeline
The structure can close in a couple of weeks; payments then run for the life of the note or option.
What can go wrong
Buyer default, and you may be back on title through foreclosure. Subject-to leaves the original loan in your name — including the due-on-sale exposure.
Read about creative selling →

Ranges are general and depend on your market, condition, and lender. Nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice.

At a glance

All six paths, side by side

Net proceeds, speed, certainty of closing, and what you pay.

Levels and day ranges are general and depend on your market, condition, and lender. Nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice.

  • Find your Realtor
    Net proceeds
    Find your Realtor Net proceeds: High
    Speed
    Find your Realtor Speed: Low
    Certainty of closing
    Find your Realtor Certainty of closing: Medium
    What the seller pays
    Commission at closing
  • Cash offer
    Net proceeds
    Cash offer Net proceeds: Low
    Speed
    Cash offer Speed: High
    Certainty of closing
    Cash offer Certainty of closing: High
    What the seller pays
    No commission, lower price
  • Creative selling
    Net proceeds
    Creative selling Net proceeds: High
    Speed
    Creative selling Speed: Medium
    Certainty of closing
    Creative selling Certainty of closing: Low
    What the seller pays
    Paid over time, not at closing
  • Guaranteed Sold Program
    Net proceeds
    Guaranteed Sold Program Net proceeds: Medium
    Speed
    Guaranteed Sold Program Speed: Medium
    Certainty of closing
    Guaranteed Sold Program Certainty of closing: High
    What the seller pays
    Commission, plus the backstop terms
  • Avoid foreclosure
    Net proceeds
    Avoid foreclosure Net proceeds: Medium
    Speed
    Avoid foreclosure Speed: High
    Certainty of closing
    Avoid foreclosure Certainty of closing: Medium
    What the seller pays
    Depends on equity and lender approval
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    Net proceeds
    Sell your land Net proceeds: Medium
    Speed
    Sell your land Speed: Low
    Certainty of closing
    Sell your land Certainty of closing: Medium
    What the seller pays
    Commission, often a higher rate

Typical days from first call to close

Typical days from your first call to the closing table. Levels and day ranges are general and depend on your market, condition, and lender. Nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice.
PathTypical days from first call to close
Find your Realtor

60–150 days

Cash offer

10–21 days

Creative selling

21–75 days

Guaranteed Sold Program

30–120 days

Avoid foreclosure

14–60 days

Sell your land

60–210 days

What the seller pays under each path

Find your Realtor

  • Agent commission, paid at closing
  • Repairs or credits you agree to after inspection
  • Normal seller closing costs and prorations
  • Preparation: cleaning, photography, any staging you choose

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Cash offer

  • No agent commission
  • No repairs and no preparation
  • The discount to open-market price — the real cost of this path
  • Closing costs, usually covered by the buyer (confirm in the contract)

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Creative selling

  • Commission, if an agent writes and markets the deal
  • Most of your proceeds arrive over years, not on closing day
  • Servicing, bookkeeping, and legal drafting of the terms
  • The cost of enforcement if the buyer stops paying

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Guaranteed Sold Program

  • Agent commission on the sale that actually happens
  • The backstop price, which sits below the list price
  • Whatever conditions the guarantee attaches — get them in writing
  • Normal seller closing costs

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Avoid foreclosure

  • Reinstatement, payoff, and any legal fees your lender has added
  • Commission, if the property is listed rather than sold for cash
  • A short sale needs lender approval, which sets its own terms
  • Speed usually costs price — that trade is the decision here

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Sell your land

  • Land commission rates commonly run higher than house rates
  • Survey, access, or soil work a buyer asks for
  • Property taxes while the parcel sits
  • Normal seller closing costs

Paid to CloseCenter: $0

Levels and day ranges are general and depend on your market, condition, and lender. Nothing here is legal, tax, or financial advice.

This fits you if

  • You inherited acreage you will not use
  • You are paying taxes on a lot with no plan for it
  • The parcel has access, zoning, or title questions
  • You would consider owner financing to widen the buyer pool

Look elsewhere if

  • You expect a 30-day sale at full price
  • You are unwilling to provide basic parcel documentation

What we hold the agent to

The accountability layer

Four standards, in writing, the same on every referral. Not a service promise — a set of conditions the agent keeps or loses the referral.

01

Full-time agents only

Real estate has to be the agent's primary income. We do not screen on closing counts — a low-volume full-time agent beats a high-volume part-timer on responsiveness.

If it slips: the referral moves to another agent in the area. Coverage is not exclusive.

02

Contact within 4 hours

The agent calls you within 4 hours of receiving the referral, same business day. Not a text blast, not an automated drip — a call from the person who will handle the file.

If it slips: tell us. We reassign, and we tell you we did.

03

30-day listing review

At day 30 the agent sits down with you and reviews their own numbers: showings, feedback, days on market, price position. No spin, no new photos as a substitute for a decision.

If it slips: we run the review ourselves and put the numbers in front of you.

04

On the file through closing

One person at CloseCenter owns your outcome from the first call to the closing table. You are not handed off to a queue.

If it slips: you have a direct line and a name, not a support inbox.

Process

What happens, in order

No mystery steps. If a step slips, you hear it from us before you notice it yourself.

  1. 1

    Send the parcel ID

    County, parcel number, and acreage. We pull the rest.

  2. 2

    Clear the unknowns

    Access, zoning, utilities, flood, perc. Each unanswered question costs you money at the table.

  3. 3

    Pick market or cash

    List for price, or take a discounted cash offer for speed. Owner financing often beats both on total dollars.

  4. 4

    Land-specific marketing

    Land portals, adjoining owners, and local builders — not just the residential MLS.

  5. 5

    Close

    Survey and title, then closing. We stay on the file.

Florida Panhandle

Unrestricted acreage in Walton, Washington and Holmes counties

Acreage north of the coast trades on a different set of questions than a beach lot. Buyers start with legal access and road frontage, then what the county allows on the parcel, then whether the land carries an agricultural classification and what happens to it after a sale. A tract that answers those three on paper sells to a wider group of people than an identical tract that does not.

Then there is water and waste. Most rural parcels here are not on central sewer, so the buyer's plan depends on an onsite septic system, and approval for one comes out of an evaluation of the actual soil — which can differ from one end of a tract to the other. A seller who has already had the soil evaluated and knows where a system can go has removed the single largest unknown in the deal. If you have not, expect buyers to price the risk rather than ignore it.

Owner financing does more work on land than it does on houses, because conventional lending on raw land is limited and many of the best buyers are paying out of savings. Carrying the note yourself puts you in front of buyers a cash-only listing never sees. Have a Florida attorney handle the documents.

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