How HomeLight Trade-In works

Get HomeLight's purchase price

HomeLight will work with Live.Love San Diego Homes to make a competitive cash offer on your current home. That's the price HomeLight will pay you for your home as soon as you're ready to move into your new home.

 

Make a strong offer on your new home

When you’ve found the home of your dreams, you can make an offer knowing HomeLight will buy your current house. This means you’re more likely to close and can do so on your own timeline.

 

Move in on your schedule

You control when you move. Once your offer is accepted, everything comes together in days. You won’t have to race against the clock, move into a temporary residence, or carry two mortgages. HomeLight buys your current home at the HomeLight Purchase Price and you get the cash to close on your dream home whenever you’re ready.

 

Get full market value when we sell your home

Live.Love San Diego Homes goes to work and lists your current home for sale. If your home sells for more than the HomeLight Purchase Price you get the additional cash minus selling costs and program fees.

 Curious how much we'll offer for your home?

Don’t take our word for it, take theirs.

 
 

"The fact that we're both teachers on teacher incomes, and we were able to use the HomeLight Trade-In program to live in the house of our dreams is pretty incredible.” Jason Castro HomeLight Trade-In Client

 
Trade In Testimonials
Omer Tripp

HomeLight Trade-In enabled us to break out of our current budget into a higher budget. Moving into a bigger house with a swimming pool and a huge backyard are definitely things you appreciate every day. I’m pretty confident we would not have ended up here if it weren’t for HomeLight.

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Omer Tripp

HomeLight Trade-In Client

Lauren Boston

Using HomeLight is kind of like shopping on Amazon, you don’t have to go to a bunch of different stores to try to find what you’re looking for, you just make a few clicks and find what you need and you’re done... it’s definitely the biggest change in real estate that I’ve seen in my career.

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Lauren BostonHome

Light Trade-In Certified Agent

Eric and Nicole Tilford

If there was an easy button in real estate transactions, this would be it. We were able to buy our perfect home because we didn't have to wait to list our house and sell it to have a bona fide offer.

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Eric and Nicole Tilford

HomeLight Trade-In Clients

Kelli GriggsHome

The HomeLight Trade-In product is probably the greatest thing that has come along in the last, I think 12 years in my opinion. I think the major benefits of using HomeLight Trade-In is to give your seller the option to be able to buy at the same time that they're selling.

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Kelli GriggsHome

Light Trade-In Certified Agent

Laura GottliebHome

The HomeLight Trade-In process only took a few weeks! It was a real estate miracle — and exactly what I needed to facilitate my transition of moving to a new home, state, and job in less than six weeks!!


Laura GottliebHome

Light Trade-In Client

Suzanne Williamson

The idea of getting a home ready to sell while you live there is overwhelming. HomeLight Trade-In removes that stress and allows potential buyers complete flexibility to view your home at their convenience. By vacating and staging our home after we moved out, we were able to sell our home for more money.

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Suzanne Williamson

HomeLight Trade-In Client

Why HomeLight?

 

HomeLight and Live.Love San Diego Homes is changing the way we transact real estate.

HomeLight’s mission is to empower people to make smarter decisions during one of life’s most important moments: buying or selling a home.

They build data-driven and innovative products that give more control to buyers and sellers while reducing risk and uncertainty.

HomeLight has helped over 800,000 clients and has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.

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FAQs


Apply here. You’ll work with Live.Love San Diego Homes to fill out your HomeLight Trade-In application and a HomeLight representative will be in touch to discuss your home buying goals.

You can also get a head start on the home buying process by completing your mortgage application on HomeLight Home Loans.



We charge a fee to purchase, own, and sell your current home.

California:

When you use HomeLight Home Loans for your new purchase, the HomeLight Trade-In fee is 1.0% for the first 30 days HomeLight owns the property, and 0.5% for every 30 days thereafter. If you do not use HomeLight Home Loans on your new purchase, the HomeLight Trade-In fee is 3.0% for the first 30 days HomeLight owns the property, and 0.5% for every 30 days thereafter.

Texas:

When you use HomeLight Home Loans for your new purchase, the HomeLight Trade-In fee is 1.0% for the first 30 days HomeLight owns the property, and 1.0% for every 30 days thereafter. If you do not use HomeLight Home Loans on your new purchase, the HomeLight Trade-In fee is 3.0% for the first 30 days HomeLight owns the property, and 1.0% for every 30 days thereafter.

All fees are calculated off of the final selling price of your current home. Additional costs may apply based on local tax laws.

Email cashclose@homelight.com for more details.



The One Source Team and HomeLight work together throughout the listing and sale process. Our goal is for you to get into the home of your dreams while receiving full market value for your current home. If your home sells for more than the price we paid for it, we’ll give you the additional cash minus selling costs and program fees.



Yes! HomeLight is proud to work with Live.Love San Diego Homes and they’ll give you top notch council and guidance throughout the process.



HomeLight Trade-In is currently available in California and Texas but things like where you’re located, the size, and condition of your will determine eligibility. HomeLight will be launching in other states in 2020. Enter your information here to be notified when HomeLight Trade-In launches in your area.