We Buy Houses in Boca Raton, As They Sit

Boca Raton is the second largest city in Palm Beach County, about 30 square miles between the Atlantic and unincorporated county land to the west. It incorporated in 1925, at the height of the Florida land boom, and reached its present size with annexations in 2003 and 2004. The median home was built in 1983 and 44% of the housing predates 1980, so an original roof or a permit nobody closed is a common thread in the houses that reach us. The City's iSIP program, which picks neighborhoods for new water and sewer mains partly by pipe material and age, includes Old Floresta, Lake Floresta Park and Tunison Palms.

Nearly two of every three occupied homes are lived in by their owners, the typical owner has been in the house since 2012, and 44% of owner households are headed by someone 65 or older. So the house often reaches us through an estate in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit's probate division, or a move that cannot wait for a listing. We work alongside the estate's attorney and pay that attorney at closing, and since about one occupied home in three is rented, we also buy with the tenant in place.

Here the title company orders two City searches that do not overlap. The Financial Services Department's lien search, $150 per parcel control number with no rush option, covers outstanding City bills, special assessments and pending or certified liens, but not open permits. Those come from the Building Department's separate search for code violations and open or expired permits, answered by email. Code cases are heard by Special Magistrates, and the City's fee schedule lists a hearing to certify a fine and a request for lien reduction. We order both and read them before the offer, and any balance shows as a line before you sign.