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Trust & Estate Sales

For Successor Trustees, Executors and Families

The Jordan Group represents families and fiduciaries selling multifamily property held in a trust or an estate. Jordan works alongside the attorney and CPA already advising you, and keeps the sale on the estate’s timeline.

Selling a Building Held in a Trust or an Estate

Estate sales carry an extra layer. Authority to sell has to be established, heirs often want different outcomes, and depending on how the estate is administered the sale may require court confirmation. A stepped-up basis can also change the tax picture enough to reshape the whole plan, so the estate attorney and CPA belong in the first meeting rather than the last.

Most of these buildings have been held for decades. Rents sit well below market, records are incomplete, and the people now responsible for selling did not choose to become landlords. The work begins with establishing what the property is worth today and what condition its paperwork is in:

  • Who holds authority to sell, and what the estate requires before an offer can be accepted
  • A current rent roll, operating statements and lease documentation, reconstructed where records are thin
  • A value grounded in closed comparable sales rather than asking prices
  • How the building goes to market, and how much of that process the family wants to see

How The Jordan Group Handles an Estate Sale

Discreet representation for trustees, executors and families.

Alongside Your Advisors

The Jordan Group has extensive experience working with successor trustees, estate attorneys and beneficiaries. Counsel and CPA stay in the conversation from the first meeting, and decisions that carry tax or fiduciary weight stay with the people qualified to make them.

A Number, Not an Opinion

Beneficiaries rarely start out agreeing on what a building is worth. A valuation built on recent closings in the same submarket, with the underwriting shown, gives the family one documented number to work from.

On the Estate’s Timeline

Marketing begins when the estate is ready. Discretion can be preserved throughout, with tenants undisturbed and terms kept private, without giving up the competition that discovers the top of the market.

Case Study

Lowest Cap Rate in West Hollywood History

Deal facts: Lowest Cap Rate in West Hollywood History
Location 24 Units Prime West Hollywood
Sold For $7,750,000
CAP Rate 1.84% (Lowest in Area History! – 8 Units +)
Price Per Unit $322,917

Challenge

Ownership which was now multiple children of original owner had held the rent-controlled property for over 40 years and was unsure of its market appeal due to low rents.

Solution

We executed an aggressive marketing campaign, generating 12 tours and 7 offers. The property ultimately sold through a Best & Final Offering with a non-contingent offer, setting a record-low Cap Rate for the area.

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