Relocation Home Sale Services
Eliminate Barriers with Employee Relocation Home Sale Programs Management
Relocating an employee is already challenging. In addition, the need to sell their home can make or break whether an employee or candidate accepts a relocation offer.
AECC’s end-to-end relocation home sale program management removes the stress, financial risk, and extra work from both the employee and the employer.
When designed and administered correctly, a relocation home sale program stands apart from other benefits because it is treated as a property transaction rather than compensation. That feature can be a significant cost savings for employers over alternative assistance, such as employee reimbursement of home-selling costs.
AECC offers fully managed relocation home sale BVO, GBO, Amended Value, Appraised Value, and closing-only solutions. Our services oversee the entire relocation home buyout transaction to ensure it flows accurately and on time from listing to closing.
AECC manages a supply chain of vetted relocation professionals along with the valued supplier relationships of our clients. Through these relationships, we oversee brokerage services, title and document preparation, negotiations, inventory management, closing with the new purchaser, and equity funding.
Employers can finally have a smooth relocation home sale program that reduces risk and taxes and increases relocation success rates.
Relocation Home Sale: The Last Major Employee Relocation Tax Deduction
Relocation home sale programs are now the last major relocation-related tax deduction employers can use. When a company provides a relocation home buyout, the IRS allows the employer to treat the home sale as a nontaxable transaction. This eliminates the need for expensive gross-up/tax assistance costs of reimbursing an employee’s closing costs directly.
AECC can help employers use relocation home sale programs to reduce tax exposure, protect budgets, and make relocation packages even more competitive.
Relocation Home Sale Programs
AECC offers all major home sale programs, including:
Buyer Value Option (BVO) Home Sale
With a Buyer Value Option program, the employee lists and markets the property independently to secure a fair market offer. Once a valid offer is received from a new homebuyer, the employer engages the relocation home sale company (AECC) to buy the home. The relocation home sale company (AECC) then sells the home to the outside purchaser and disburses equity proceeds to the employee.
When the relocation home sale company becomes the equitable owner of the property, the home sale can qualify as a tax-advantaged, non-taxable benefit. The relocation home sale company, AECC, also manages the closing, resale, and all related administration.
Guaranteed Buyout (GBO) Home Sale
In a Guaranteed Buyout (GBO) relocation home sale program, also known as Appraised Value home sale program, the relocation home sale company (AECC) gives the employee a guaranteed offer for their home based on independent appraisals.
The employee can accept the guaranteed value and move forward. AECC will purchase the home and continue to manage the resale. Like the BVO program, this program creates a non-taxable benefit, and since it does not depend on a closing with an outside purchaser, the employee is able to complete the sale to AECC, receive their equity proceeds, and continue with their relocation.
Amended Value Home Sale
An Amended Value home sale program starts like a GBO, using appraisals to determine a guaranteed offer to the employee. The employer’s relocation policy will allow the employee time to market the home in an attempt to receive and offer more than the AECC offer. If the employee gets a higher outside offer, the guaranteed offer is adjusted to match the buyer’s price. This way, the employee can gain the most value from their home while still having the security of knowing they will not receive less than AECC’s guaranteed offer.
Employee Relocation Closing‑Only Services
AECC’s CSO leverages the expertise of AECC managers to support transferees whose homes do not qualify for their employer’s relocation program, or when the employer provides only direct reimbursement of selling costs. Because the employee sells the home directly to an outside buyer, rather than to AECC, the transaction does not receive the tax-free treatment of a traditional home sale program. Even so, AECC’s oversight, guidance, and counseling help transferees navigate the process with confidence, avoid common pitfalls, and reduce unnecessary stress.
AECC Relocation Home Sale Services
AECC works hand in hand with Realtors that specialize in corporate relocation, review offers, and handle negotiations.
AECC’s end-to-end closing management for relocation home sale includes:
- Full document management (disclosures, contracts of sale)
- Equity calculation and payment to the employee
- Equity Funding
- Seller listing
- Inventory management
- We will sign as the named seller on purchase agreements as required
- Coordinate resale closings
- Provide settlement approval
- Timely fund transfers
Make your real estate relocation benefits a major benefit, lower risk, and take a major relocation burden off employees’ shoulders. Use relocation home buyouts to attract and relocate top talent and settle people into new roles faster.
Title and Deed For Corporate Relocation
Ensure your employees’ real estate transactions are accurate, efficient, and fully compliant with real estate and tax rules. AECC will:
- Manage the title search to confirm ownership
- Checks for liens or other issues
- Ensures the employee’s property can be legally transferred
We also work with trusted partners and our vetted attorney network to handle:
- Deed preparation
- Create proper transfer documents
- Comply with federal, state, and local regulations
- Make the closing process seamless
The last thing your company needs is legal and financial risks in your relocation home sale program. Avoid costly delays in your employee’s relocation home buyout and remove a big administrative task from both HR and your relocating employees.
Accounting Expense and Equity Management
Manage relocation home sale programs with clarity, compliance, and a fully auditable process.
AECC will manage all financial components of the employee’s home sale:
- Property cost accounting
- Vendor payments
- Detailed equity calculations
- Equity Funding
- Timely payments to the employee
- Track all corporate relocation home sale program costs
- Reconcile property expenses
- Make sure each transaction meets IRS requirements and company policy
- Accurate 1099-S preparation for reportable real estate transactions
Working with AECC’s relocation specialists will improve accuracy, protect against tax issues, and free up your accounting teams from complex tasks.
Benefits of Relocation Home Sale Programs Management For Employers
- Home sale programs remove a major barrier to an employee’s decision to proceed with a relocation
- Relocation real estate services keep employees more focused and productive during a relocation
- Decreases the time for the employee to arrive and begin working at their new job
- Objective relocation home sale management serves the best interests of both the employee and the company
- Home sale programs lower or eliminate tax gross-up expenses
- Speeds implementation with an immediate return on value
- Employers get expert oversight of relocation real estate
- Significant cost savings over direct reimbursement
- Eliminates the cost and employee inconvenience of return trips to attend closings
Benefits of Relocation Home Sale Program Management For Employees
- The transferee trusts that their best interests are being served
- Removes major financial burdens of the real estate transaction
- The employee has access to expert, objective guidance and support throughout the complexity of closing
- Eliminates the need to secure a local attorney in most cases
- Eliminates the need for the employee to attend the closing
- Eliminates the need to submit a closing cost reimbursement request to their employer
- The employee receives their full equity faster
- Reduces the time, aggravation, and stress of a home sale
- Eliminates tax burdens associated with a direct reimbursement program