Selling Your Century City House Because You’re Relocating

Relocating out of Century City for a new job or a company transfer usually comes with a start date that doesn’t move to accommodate a slow escrow. Cash Home Buyers CA buys Century City condos on a timeline built around your relocation date, closing in as little as seven to fourteen days once title and HOA paperwork are in order.

Why Century City Relocations Often Run on Short Notice

Century City is home to major law firms including Gibson Dunn, Paul Hastings, Seyfarth Shaw, and Morgan Lewis, along with Creative Artists Agency, and professionals at firms like these are frequently relocated between offices or transferred internationally on schedules set by the firm rather than by the employee’s own moving preferences. When a transfer date is set weeks rather than months out, a traditional listing, showing period, and financed buyer’s escrow can easily run past the date you need to be gone.

What Makes a Condo Sale Slower Than a House Sale

• A financed buyer’s lender reviews the building, not just the unit. Mortgage approval for a condo requires the lender to review the HOA’s budget, reserve study, insurance, and owner-occupancy ratio, on top of underwriting the buyer — a step a single-family sale doesn’t have.
• Showings compete with your packing schedule. Keeping a unit show-ready while you’re simultaneously packing for a move adds friction a listing timeline doesn’t account for.
• Redfin’s data shows a genuinely slow market right now. March 2026 figures put Century City’s median time on market at 123 days, up 73 days year over year, on only 30 sales that month — numbers that make “list it and hope it closes before you leave” a real risk rather than a formality.
• An out-of-state or international move complicates signing. Coordinating remote signatures, notarization, and wire instructions from a new city or country is more complex than local closings, and we’re set up to handle that coordination directly.

Selling Before You Leave Versus Managing It Remotely

Some relocating owners try to sell after they’ve already moved, managing the transaction and any remaining belongings from a new city or country. That works, but it adds real friction: coordinating a cleanout, key handoff, and any final walkthrough long-distance, on top of a market that’s already taking 123 days to sell the median Century City unit. Closing before you leave, or on a date that lines up with your last day in the unit, avoids managing an empty condo and ongoing HOA dues from somewhere else entirely.

How We Build the Closing Date Around Your Move

Once you tell us your target moving date, we work backward from it: ordering title and the Department of Building and Safety’s 9A report early enough to close by that date, and requesting the HOA’s payoff and transfer documentation as soon as we open escrow rather than waiting until closer to the closing date. If your relocation date shifts, which happens often with corporate transfers, we can generally adjust the closing date without restarting the process, since there’s no buyer financing contingency that locks the timeline in place.

Leaving Belongings or a Partially Packed Unit

We buy Century City units as-is, which includes units left partially packed or with belongings you don’t have time to fully clear before your moving date. You don’t need to arrange a separate cleanout crew or coordinate a final deep clean around your relocation — we handle whatever’s left in the unit as part of the purchase, which removes one more task from a moving timeline that’s usually already full.

Renting It Out Instead Isn’t Always the Easier Option

Some relocating owners consider keeping the unit and renting it out rather than selling before they leave, but that comes with its own building-level constraints in Century City. Some HOAs here cap the number or percentage of units that can be rented at any given time, and if the building is already near that cap, converting your unit to a rental may not even be an option regardless of your own preference. Managing a rental from another city or country also means finding a property manager, staying on top of HOA rules remotely, and continuing to carry dues and any special assessment on a unit that’s no longer generating the convenience of proximity that made owning it worthwhile in the first place.

Newer Towers Versus the Original 1960s Buildings

A relocating seller’s timeline can also depend on which era of Century City building they own. A unit in one of the neighborhood’s newer high-rises may face different HOA rental-cap rules and reserve-fund standing than a unit in one of the original towers dating to the 1960s master-planned development on the former 20th Century Fox backlot. Either way, that same building-level review is exactly what a financed buyer’s lender has to clear, and exactly what we skip entirely by buying with our own funds.

The HOA Transfer Process Still Has to Happen

Even on an expedited sale, the building’s HOA still needs to process the ownership transfer, update its records, and confirm dues are current through the closing date. We manage that communication directly with the HOA’s management company so it isn’t competing for your attention alongside packing, transferring utilities, and everything else a relocation involves. We also handle the city’s $5.60 per $1,000 combined transfer tax as part of the purchase.

Coordinating a Corporate Relocation Benefit

Some employers offer relocation assistance that includes a home-sale benefit, sometimes structured through a relocation company that buys the property or guarantees a sale price. When that’s available, it’s worth comparing against a direct cash sale, since relocation-company programs often deduct fees and can still take weeks to structure the purchase. We’re happy to provide our written offer alongside whatever a relocation benefit quotes, so you can compare the actual net proceeds and timeline of each option side by side before deciding.

How the Closing Itself Works

Once you accept our offer, we open escrow with a licensed Los Angeles title company, order title and the 9A report, and request the HOA payoff demand and transfer paperwork. Signing can happen remotely through a mobile notary or overnight courier if you’ve already relocated, and recording happens at the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in Norwalk, with proceeds wired the same day recording is confirmed — wherever you happen to be by then. If you’ve left keys with a neighbor, a doorman, or the building’s concierge rather than handing them to us directly, we coordinate pickup with the building’s front desk, which most Century City towers are set up to handle as a matter of routine.

The Same Timeline Advantage Applies Citywide

A cash sale’s speed advantage over a financed condo purchase applies the same way anywhere in the city; Century City’s HOA-review layer is specific to owning a condominium rather than a single-family house. See our page on selling a house due to relocation across the rest of Los Angeles for the broader picture.

Frequently Asked Questions

How fast can you close around my relocation date?

We can often close in as little as 7 to 14 days once we have title and the HOA’s transfer paperwork, and we build the timeline around your specific moving date.

What if my transfer date changes after we’ve started?

Since there’s no buyer financing contingency, we can generally adjust the closing date to match a shifted relocation date without restarting the process.

Can I sell if I’ve already moved out of state?

Yes. We regularly coordinate signing through a mobile notary or overnight courier for sellers who have already relocated.

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

No. We buy units as-is, including ones left partially packed, so you don’t need to arrange a separate cleanout before closing.

Will the HOA transfer slow down my relocation timeline?

We coordinate the HOA transfer directly with the building’s management company so it doesn’t compete with your own moving tasks.

To sell your Century City condo around a relocation date, call or text 424-493-4424 for a written offer within 24 to 48 hours.