Estate and probate home sales
A clear plan for the house, from sill to ridge.
Many estate homes haven't been updated in years. We walk the house from the foundation sill to the roof ridge and recommend the work that will make it marketable. The personal representative and the estate's counsel decide what to do and what to spend. We then coordinate skilled, experienced independent contractors to carry it out, and we sell the house on the open market.
What we do
An honest price
A written opinion of value with the comparable sales behind it, before anyone commits to anything.
A recommended scope
A written list of cleanout, maintenance and modest upgrades that would help the sale, each with an estimated cost, so the estate can choose.
Coordinating the work
Once the estate approves a scope, we schedule and oversee skilled, experienced independent contractors and report progress until the house is ready.
Listing and selling
Full MLS exposure, photos, showings and offers, with a plain summary of every offer for the family.
Eyes and keys
For heirs who live far away, we check on the house and handle access for contractors and buyers, so nobody has to fly in.
For executors and their attorneys
- Written value up front. Useful for the inventory and for the family's expectations.
- The estate decides. We recommend, and the personal representative and counsel approve every item and every dollar before any work begins.
- Timing fits the estate. We plan the listing around the license to sell or other authority your attorney confirms.
- We never buy what we sell. No lowball offers from us, no referral fees, and the house goes on the MLS for every buyer.
- Independent contractors. Skilled, experienced independent contractors do the work under their own contracts with the estate. We coordinate them, and we take no fees or markups from them.
- Brokerage only. We don't give legal advice. The estate's attorney stays in charge of the legal side.
Where we work
Middlesex · Suffolk · Norfolk · Essex · Plymouth · Bristol · Barnstable · Martha's Vineyard · Nantucket
Who you'll work with
Sill to Ridge Real Estate is the brokerage of John DiSciullo, a licensed Massachusetts real estate broker with a background in developing and renovating property. That background is how he sees what an older house needs and what it doesn't. You deal with John directly, from the first walk-through to the closing.