Probate timelines vary with the size and complexity of the estate, and a lawyer who handles estate files can tell you where yours sits in that process. Some estates also need to settle debts or other beneficiaries before or alongside the sale, which your lawyer coordinates directly with Information Services Corporation and the buyer's lawyer at closing.
An inherited home often carries decades of unrecorded upgrades that public records never caught, which is exactly the gap a hand-reviewed valuation is built to close rather than pricing off an automated estimate. Seller closing costs of 4 to 6 percent still apply on an estate sale the same as any other.
You do not have to keep or manage a house you have no use for, and selling it does not have to wait on every other estate matter to be tidy. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.