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To better serve our clients, we have upgraded our website with a cleaner look and easier navigation. We've also added a blog feature (at the About Us drop-down menu) as well as extensive resources on the sale of real property through probate, trust and conservatorship.

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Thank you!
Nancy Sanborn and team

Selling Celebrity

The Sanborn Team was recently the listing agent for a celebrity property in the gated community known as The Summit. A property under conservatorship, the listing and sale were managed much like a probate and subject to court confirmation.

Not surprisingly, celebrity-owned properties, wherever they are and whomever the star, attract abundant interest — from the media, the public and even from other real estate agents. Everyone wants a look inside. People want to know the star’s secrets.

But, as listing agents, our job is not only to get the property sold, but also to protect the privacy of the owner. In this case, that meant assisting the conservator to make the most of the property, carefully monitoring access to the residence, marketing it aggressively and representing the conservator and conservatee in court.

It was a strategy that worked. The property was placed on the market for $2.995 million and sold for $4.2 million.

For publicity, celebrities have publicists; for real estate sales through probate, trust, conservatorship or standard transaction, they have The Sanborn Team.

Visit The Sanborn Team website and call us for more information: 310-777-2858.

Probate, trust, conservatorship....and copyright?

We were delighted to read Bernice Ross’s succinct and informative article on copyright, “Know the basics of copyright, trademark infringement” in today’s issue of Inman News. Bernice is not only an extremely knowledgeable and successful real estate coach and author, she is also a dear friend of The Sanborn Team. What’s more, she’s right on target with her information about copyright.

It’s an issue we’ve thought about a great deal. As we’ve worked to create original text for our posts, we’ve observed that not everyone is quite so conscientious. In fact, a while back, purely by accident, we discovered that the text from our blog was being “borrowed” in its entirety by another agent who was posting it as their own.

The irony, of course, is that a huge part of our business representing clients in the sale of real property through probate, trust and conservatorship is sharing information. We advise other agents, buyers, sellers, fiduciaries, administrators, conservators, trustees, accountants, executors and even attorneys to make sure that the parties to a transaction have all of the information they need, when and where they need it.

We do our homework. And we respect the talent and integrity of the many skilled individuals and businesses with whom we work. It’s a pretty simple way of doing business: surround yourself with smart, honest people and do the work right the first time. It’s a philosophy that’s served us well for more than 30 years.

If you have questions about real estate sales through probate, trust or conservatorship, we would be happy to talk with you. Call Nancy at The Sanborn Team: 310-777-2858.