We Buy Houses in Coral Springs, As They Sit

Coral Springs was planned before it was built: Coral Ridge Properties laid it out from a 3,860-acre bean farm in the north-west corner of Broward, and the city incorporated on July 10, 1963. Almost everything you see went up afterwards in one long push, which is why the median home dates from 1987, fewer than three in ten houses predate 1980 and barely one in twenty predates 1970. Turtle Run, Forest Hills, Westchester, Ramblewood and the streets around the Country Club are that city: single-family blocks laid out around neighborhood parks.

The owners are young: about one in four owner households is headed by someone 65 or older, and the typical owner arrived in 2011. So the Coral Springs house that reaches us is usually about a change of life, a move, a divorce, a downsizing, or a payment that slipped, and less often an estate. The house is usually not the problem; the timing is, and you pick the date.

The City's lien search comes from the Code Compliance division on a Lien Inquiry Form: $75 per property with an answer by email within ten business days, or $125 expedited in one. It covers water and sewer balances and code, business-tax and fire-inspection cases and liens, but not HOA or county-recorded liens, which we check separately, and houses outside the City's water district get their balance from the Coral Springs or North Springs Improvement District instead. Code cases go before a Special Magistrate, and a house with an open code lien can still be sold: the City's Escrow Release of Lien process takes a $300 application and about three to six weeks, and we build that into your closing date.