Sell Your House As-Is in Century City

“As-is” means something specific in a condominium market like Century City: it covers the unit’s own condition, but it does not exempt you from the building’s own disclosures, HOA documents, or the city’s standard reports. Cash Home Buyers CA buys Century City condos in as-is condition and handles all of that paperwork ourselves, so “as-is” here actually means no repairs, no cleaning, no renovation, and no waiting on the building for you.

What As-Is Changes, and What It Doesn’t

Selling as-is means we do not ask you to fix anything before closing — not outdated kitchens or bathrooms, not original 1960s or 1970s plumbing and electrical in an older tower, not cosmetic damage, not even a unit that’s been vacant and neglected for years. What it does not change is the paperwork a Los Angeles sale requires regardless of condition: the Department of Building and Safety’s 9A Report of Residential Property Records, the standard retrofit certifications, and, for a condominium, the building’s HOA disclosures. We handle all of it as part of our purchase.

Why As-Is Matters More in an Aging High-Rise

• Original systems in older towers. The Century Towers, designed by I.M. Pei and completed in 1963 and 1964, and other buildings from that first wave of Century City’s development, are now over sixty years old, and a unit that has never been fully renovated can have original plumbing, wiring or HVAC that would fail a conventional buyer’s inspection.
• A financed buyer’s inspection contingency. A retail buyer’s inspector will flag original systems, and the repair-credit negotiation that follows can add weeks to a deal that was otherwise ready to close.
• Building-wide deferred maintenance. Even if your unit is updated, a building with deferred maintenance in common areas, elevators or the exterior envelope can complicate a lender’s building approval regardless of your unit’s own condition.
• A pending special assessment for deferred work. Older buildings sometimes carry a known or upcoming assessment to address aging systems building-wide, which a financed buyer’s lender will want resolved or explained before funding.

Cosmetic Condition Versus Structural and Building Condition

It helps to separate three different kinds of “condition” in a condo sale. There’s the unit’s cosmetic state — paint, flooring, fixtures — which almost never stops a sale on its own. There’s the unit’s systems — plumbing, electrical, HVAC — which an inspector will flag and a lender may require repaired before funding. And there’s the building’s condition, covering the roof, elevators, common-area plumbing, the exterior envelope and any earthquake or life-safety retrofit work the HOA is responsible for. A financed buyer’s underwriting can stall on any of the three, but a cash sale only has to account for what actually exists, priced accordingly, rather than requiring any of it to be fixed first.

What We Actually Buy

We buy units in original, dated condition; units with visible damage from water, fire or long-term neglect; units with unpermitted interior modifications; and updated units in buildings that a lender won’t easily approve because of a high rental ratio, litigation, or a pending assessment. Redfin’s March 2026 figures put Century City’s median sale price near $2,325,000 on just 30 sales that month, with a median of 123 days on market — in a market that thin, an original-condition unit in an older tower competes directly against fully renovated units for the same small buyer pool, and often loses on both price and time. Century City itself covers only about 176 acres with an estimated 1,929 housing units as of 2017 American Community Survey data, so there simply aren’t that many transactions each month for an unrenovated unit to find the specific buyer willing to take on the work — most retail buyers shopping this price range expect turnkey condition and will pass rather than negotiate a large repair credit.

What Selling As-Is Skips

We skip the inspection contingency entirely, since there is no lender requiring one. We skip staging and showings — no preparing the unit to be photographed or walked through repeatedly. We skip the repair-credit negotiation that follows almost every home inspection. We still handle the city’s 9A report and retrofit certifications ourselves, and we still pull the building’s HOA financials and reserve study during escrow, but none of that falls on you to arrange or pay for before we can move forward. Because Century City sits within the City of Los Angeles, a sale also carries the city’s $4.50 per $1,000 transfer tax on top of the county’s $1.10 per $1,000, for $5.60 per $1,000 combined — roughly $12,900 on a $2.3 million sale — which we account for in our number rather than adding it as a surprise at closing.

Estates, Landlords and Long-Held Units

An as-is sale suits a few situations especially well in Century City: an inherited unit a family doesn’t want to renovate before selling, a rented unit where the owner doesn’t want to coordinate repairs around a tenant, and a unit held for decades where updating it to market standard would cost more than the owner wants to spend before selling at all. In each case, the building’s age and HOA paperwork matter as much as the unit’s own condition, and we account for both in one number. We also see the same pattern in units bought during the earlier waves of Century City’s development in the 1960s and 1970s that have since been rented out for decades: an owner who never fully modernized the unit because tenants occupied it the whole time, and who would rather sell as-is than absorb a renovation budget on the way out.

How the Sale Actually Proceeds

Once you accept our offer, we open escrow with a licensed Los Angeles title company, order the 9A report and preliminary title, and request the building’s HOA financials, reserve study and any litigation history directly from the management company rather than asking you to gather it. A clear-title unit with a responsive HOA can close in as little as two to three weeks; a unit with more complicated ownership history or an unresponsive management company may take a bit longer, and you set the date either way. Recording happens at the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in Norwalk, with proceeds wired the same day recording is confirmed.

The Same Rules Apply Across the City

The city’s 9A report, retrofit certifications and transfer tax apply to every Los Angeles property regardless of condition or neighborhood. See our page on selling as-is across the rest of Los Angeles for how these rules apply outside Century City, and our fast-sale page for how an as-is sale compares on timeline to a financed listing here specifically.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to clean out the unit before you’ll buy it?

No. We buy units with furniture, belongings, and years of accumulated items still inside, exactly as they are.

Will you buy a unit with an unpermitted renovation?

Yes. Unpermitted interior work that would complicate a financed buyer’s appraisal or a lender’s building approval is exactly the kind of condition an as-is cash sale is built for.

What if the building itself has deferred maintenance?

We factor building-wide condition and any pending assessment into our offer rather than requiring the building to fix anything before we buy your unit.

Do I still need to provide the 9A report myself?

No. We order the Department of Building and Safety’s Report of Residential Property Records and handle the standard retrofit certifications as part of the purchase.

How is an as-is price different from a market-ready price?

An as-is offer reflects the unit’s actual condition and the building’s current standing rather than a hypothetical fully-renovated value, which is why it typically comes in below what a move-in-ready unit would fetch after repairs and a marketed listing.

Can you buy a unit in one of the original 1960s towers without any updates?

Yes. Units in Century City’s earliest towers, including buildings from the same era as the Century Towers, are exactly the kind of original-condition property this kind of sale is built around.

To sell your Century City condo as-is, in its current condition, call or text 424-493-4424 for a written offer within 24 to 48 hours.