Applicable to a homeowner who dies intestate – the home, not owned by the decedent through joint-tenancy nor through tenancy-by-the-entirety (no joint tenancy) – the sale process for the home is a probate sale. One of the early steps in a probate sale is for the court to authorize a licensed real estate agent to list the decedent’s home. This being the home, now listed for sale by the real estate agent, which had been owned by the decedent, intestate.
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