Sell your Alabama land for cash

Yes. Alabama's deed tax is 50 cents for each $500 of value conveyed, or fraction of $500, which is about 0.1% of the price. The judge of probate collects it before the deed can be recorded. The deed needs proof of the price or value, such as Form RT-1, the Real Estate Sales Validation Form, unless the deed shows it. Ask your county probate office or title company for the total. Source: Ala. Code 40-22-1 and Alabama Department of Revenue Form RT-1.

Interest is added, and the county can sell the land or a tax lien on it. Alabama property taxes are due October 1 and become delinquent if unpaid before January 1, then bear 12% yearly interest plus fees and costs. Each year, the county's tax collecting official picks a tax sale of the land or a tax lien auction for all property in the county. A lien buyer can sue to foreclose your right to redeem 4 to 10 years after the auction. You can redeem until final judgment, but once you are served, court costs and attorney fees are added. Source: Ala. Code 40-11-4, 40-5-9, 40-10-180, 40-10-197.

Generally 3 years from the sale if a private buyer bought it, or until title leaves the state if the state bought it. You pay the bid and later taxes the buyer paid, generally with 8% yearly interest, plus costs and fees. After 3 years the buyer can get a tax deed, but an owner who kept possession can still redeem in court, adding attorney fees. For unoccupied land, possession stays with the owner until the buyer holds adverse possession for 3 years after becoming entitled to it. An owner can claim the overbid by redeeming, or after 3 years by waiving redemption on record, but the county keeps it after 10 years. Source: Ala. Code 40-10-120, 40-10-122, 40-10-29, 40-10-82, 40-10-83 and 40-10-28 (as amended by Act 2024-261).

Generally no, because Alabama applies caveat emptor, or buyer beware, to the purchase of unimproved land. Fraud rules still apply. Under Alabama law, a false statement of a material fact that the buyer acts on is legal fraud, even if made by mistake. Hiding a material fact is also fraud when you have a duty to share it. Ask an Alabama real estate attorney what your facts require. Source: DeAravjo v. Walker, 589 So. 2d 1292 (Ala. 1991), and Ala. Code 6-5-101 and 6-5-102.

Only through a court partition case, and if the land is heirs property, the other heirs get added protections. Alabama's heirs property law covers partition cases filed since January 1, 2015, for family land co-owned with no agreement on partition. The court sets the land's value, and co-owners who did not ask for a sale can buy out those who did based on that value. If no buyout happens, the court must divide the land unless division would cause great prejudice, and only then order a sale. An Alabama attorney can tell you if your land qualifies. Source: Ala. Code 35-6A-2, 35-6A-3, 35-6A-7 and 35-6A-8 (Alabama Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act).

Yes. You do not need to live in Alabama to sell Alabama land to us. Liberty Acres buys land anywhere in the US and closes through a title company. We pay back taxes and all closing costs, and there are no agents and no commissions.

Only if the price is $300,000 or more and no other exemption applies. Then the buyer must withhold 3% of the price, or 4% if the buyer is a business entity. You can give the buyer an Affidavit of Seller's Gain (Form NR-AF2) so the withholding is figured on your gain instead. Withholding never exceeds your net proceeds, and you claim it as a credit on your Alabama income tax return. Ask your title company or tax adviser which forms apply to you. Source: Alabama Department of Revenue, Nonresident Withholding (Ala. Code 40-18-86).