We Buy Houses in Delray Beach, As They Sit

Delray Beach began in 1895 as the Town of Linton, took the name Delray in 1898, and became the City of Delray Beach in 1927, when the towns on either side of the Intracoastal merged. Across a planning area of about 17.4 square miles, the City's comprehensive plan traces how the housing spread: from the traditional grid neighborhoods near downtown, such as The Set, Osceola Park and Lake Ida, to large suburban developments in the western area, such as Bexley Park and Sabal Lakes. The median home dates from 1983 and more than four in ten predate 1980, so the house that reaches us often still has its original roof, windows or wiring.

Owners live in 63% of the city's roughly 30,000 occupied homes, the typical owner has been in the house since 2011, and half of owner households are headed by someone 65 or older. So the house often reaches us through an estate. Probate runs through the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and the Palm Beach County Clerk handles probate cases at its South County Courthouse on West Atlantic Avenue. We work alongside the estate's attorney and pay that attorney at closing.

The title company orders the City's lien search, run by Orange Lien Data, LLC since September 1, 2019: $115 per request, covering municipal liens, code enforcement liens and utility balances. Permit records sit in the City's eServices portal, which requires registration. Code cases go before the City's Special Magistrate; a recorded order imposing a fine becomes a lien on the land, and a reduction can be granted only once the violation is in compliance or the case has closed on a change of ownership. We order and read all of it before the offer, and any balance shows as a line before you sign.