(Seller is not exempt for certain disclosures - Use C.A.R. form ESD, Revised 12.16 to comply)
• The sale of new homes as part of a subdivision project where a public
report must be delivered to the purchaser or a public report is not
required. However, when such new homes are sold through a real estate
broker, the broker owes the buyer a duty to disclose any material facts
which affect the value, desirability and intended use of the property;
• Foreclosure sales;
• Court ordered transfers;
• Transfers by a fiduciary in the administration of a decedent’s estate, a
guardianship, conservatorship, or trust except where the trustee is a
former owner of the property;
• Transfers to a spouse or to a person or persons in the lineal line of
consanguinity; Consanguinity ("blood relation", from the Latin consanguinitas) is the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that aspect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person.
• Transfers resulting from a judgment of dissolution of marriage, or of
legal separation, or from a property settlement agreement incidental to
such a judgment;
• Transfers from one co-owner to another;
• Transfers by the State Controller for unclaimed property;
• Transfers resulting from failure to pay taxes; and
• Transfers to or from any governmental entity