How do I sell my Lincoln Heights house when I'm relocating?

1. Decide whether to list before or after you move, based on your new job or home date.
2. Print the ZIMAS report and pull the permit record while you can still look for paperwork in the house.
3. Order the Residential Property Report or confirm an exemption.
4. Get my opinion of value and agree on a listing date.
5. Arrange remote signing with escrow, and a key and lockbox plan for vendors.
6. Keep insurance and utilities on until closing.

More than people expect. Yards grow, mail piles up and small leaks go unnoticed. If the parcel is in the fire zone, LAFD calls vegetation management a year-round responsibility, with clearance within 200 feet of structures; in Lincoln Heights that zone is nearly all in the northeast hills, so check ZIMAS for your address. I can line up yard, cleaning and repair vendors and send you photos after each visit.

Buyers moving in from elsewhere ask how the neighborhood is governed and planned. Lincoln Heights is a City of Los Angeles neighborhood; its Neighborhood Council was certified on April 27, 2002, and it sits in the Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan area, whose 1999 revision describes Lincoln Heights as east of the Los Angeles River and south of the Arroyo Seco. City Planning's Lincoln Heights HPOZ board meets at the Lincoln Heights Branch Library on Workman Street, a Historic-Cultural Monument (#261), which tells buyers early that some blocks carry exterior review.

From comparable nearby sales, adjusted for condition, the lot and parking. A vacant house shows differently than a lived-in one, so we decide together whether light staging is worth it. My home value review is an opinion of value, not an appraisal.

The standard closing costs, paid from the proceeds, plus upkeep while the house is vacant. LA County's documentary transfer tax is $1.10 per $1,000 of the sale price. Lincoln Heights is in the City of Los Angeles, which adds its own transfer tax of $2.25 per $500, plus Measure ULA of 4 percent on sales above $5,400,000 but less than $10,900,000 and 5.5 percent at or above $10,900,000 (the applicable ULA rate is calculated on the full gross value conveyed, not just the amount above the threshold); thresholds adjust each July 1. Your escrow officer shows how it and the county tax apply to your sale.

LADBS requires the seller of residential property in the City of Los Angeles to give the buyer a Residential Property Report before the sale or the close of escrow (LAMC Section 96.300; $70.85 per report as of November 5, 2026). The LADBS Form 9 application says no new report is needed for six months after one is issued, and it lists exceptions, including property exempt from the documentary transfer tax and the first sale of a home in a subdivision whose final map was recorded not more than two years earlier. Check your transfer with LADBS before ordering.

The amount or rate of real estate commissions is not fixed by law. They are set by each broker individually and may be negotiable between the seller and broker.

• How to sell a house in Lincoln Heights
• Downsizing from a Lincoln Heights home
• A Lincoln Heights 1031 exchange sale
• Relocation sale services
• Seller roadmap
• Nearby: Highland Park relocation and Glassell Park relocation

Sidney Manzo, CA DRE #01108914
In real estate since 1990 · RE/MAX Hall of Fame · Member, Pasadena Foothills Association of REALTORS® and California Association of REALTORS® (C.A.R.)
Brokerage: RE/MAX Dream Properties (ASLG Inc), CA DRE #02142193