If you inherited a property with siblings and they won't sell, you are not stuck waiting on them. Here's how selling your own share actually works.
The short version: most inherited property ends up titled as a tenancy in common, where each owner holds a separate, sellable interest. You generally can't sell the whole house without everyone agreeing — but you can usually sell your share without anyone's permission. That's a real option a lot of people don't know they have.
We'll be straight with you, because this is the part most companies skip. Almost no ordinary buyer wants a fraction of a house. They can't live in it without dealing with your co-owners, they can't get a normal mortgage on a partial interest, they can't renovate or sell without cooperation, and they have no control over what happens next. That's why a half interest in a $300,000 house is not worth $150,000 on the open market.
The discount isn't a trick — it's what the illiquidity actually costs. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not a real buyer or hasn't priced the risk. What we will do is explain plainly how we got to our number, so you can judge it against your alternatives instead of just taking it or leaving it.
Usually nets you the most. If the sibling who wants the house can raise the money, this is almost always the better deal — and we'll tell you what a fair buyout looks like.
The whole property is worth far more than the sum of discounted shares. If you can get agreement, this is the best total outcome for the family.
The fastest and cleanest exit, at a real discount. You're done, you're paid, and you're out of a situation that may have been stuck for years.
This is the question people actually want answered, and it's usually about family rather than money. Here's the honest sequence, most common first.
1. Your co-owner buys the interest from us. This is the most common outcome by a wide margin. The person who wanted to keep the house often was willing to buy you out — they just couldn't work it out with a sibling. We're a counterparty with no history in the room and no feelings about the kitchen table.
2. Everyone agrees to sell the whole property. Once we're on title we can work with the other owners toward selling the entire house, which is worth substantially more than two discounted halves. Everyone nets more than they would have otherwise.
3. We buy out the remaining owners too. If the others also want liquidity once someone is actually at the table with an offer, we'll buy their interests as well and own the property outright. At that point it's an ordinary purchase.
4. Court, only if nothing else works. A partition action is a legal option and we won't pretend it doesn't exist — but it's slow, expensive for everyone, and it's the last thing we reach for, not the business model. Most of these situations resolve at the kitchen table, not the courthouse.
Complicated title and multiple owners is where we do our best work. We'll explain how a tenancy in common works, what your interest is realistically worth and why, and what a buyout from your co-owner would probably look like. If that buyout is the better deal — and it often is — we'll say so, and you can go have that conversation with our numbers in hand.
This is general information, not legal advice. How co-ownership works, and what rights each owner has, depends on your state and on how the deed is written. Confirm your specific situation with a local real estate attorney.
Tell us the situation and we'll walk you through what your share is worth and every way out of it — at no cost and with no obligation.