Free to list. No agent required. No commission.
There is no listing fee and no paid placement. That is not a promotion that ends — it is how the platform is built. We do not sell position in search results, so there is no version of this where paying us moves your property up the page.
The trade-off worth knowing about before you start: every listing on KindHome displays its drawbacks alongside its highlights. If a property backs onto a busy road, that appears. Sellers sometimes find this uncomfortable, and it is the entire reason buyers trust what they read here.
Most of what decides how a sale goes is settled before the first viewing. Three things matter more than the rest, and none of them is the listing photograph everyone worries about.
California asks sellers to disclose a great deal, and the obligation is broader than the forms. The Transfer Disclosure Statement covers condition and known defects. A Natural Hazard Disclosure states whether the property falls inside a flood, fire or earthquake zone. Since 2025, properties in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone carry additional defensible space and home hardening disclosures under Civil Code 1102.19 and 1102.6f.
Known material facts must be disclosed whether or not a form asks. Sellers who guess wrong on that point are the ones who end up in court after closing — non-disclosure is the most common source of California real estate litigation, and it is entirely avoidable. If you do not know which zone your property is in, check the address against CAL FIRE’s map before you list rather than after an offer.
Commission is the largest cost and it is always negotiable — the DRE says so plainly. Then there is county transfer tax, a city transfer tax in some places, Measure ULA above its thresholds in Los Angeles, escrow, title, the hazard disclosure report, and whatever the inspection produces. Which side customarily pays each item is county practice rather than law, so that is negotiable too. Our calculator itemises every line so the number you plan around is what actually reaches you.
A listing draws its biggest audience in the first two weeks. A price that is wrong during that window spends attention you cannot buy back, and every reduction afterwards is visible to buyers as part of the property’s history. Start from the comparable sales, be able to show them, and treat a confident single-number estimate from any source — including ours — as a starting point rather than an answer.
Yes. There is no listing fee, no featured-placement fee and no payment details required to publish. We do not sell position in search results, so no amount of money moves a listing up the page — the ranking reflects the match to what someone is looking for, and nothing else.
No. You can list directly. If you would like an agent, KindHome ranks them by client outcomes rather than by what they pay us, which is the opposite of how most directories work. Listing here does not commit you to using one, and nobody is assigned to you because you filled in a form.
Photographs first, by a distance — enough of them, taken in daylight, covering every room rather than the four best angles. Then a description that names the drawbacks as well as the highlights. That sounds counterproductive and is not: buyers discover the drawbacks at the viewing anyway, and a listing that told them in advance is the one they trust. Every KindHome listing shows its drawbacks for this reason.
More than most sellers expect. The Transfer Disclosure Statement covers the condition of the property and known defects. A Natural Hazard Disclosure states whether the property sits in a flood, fire or seismic zone. Since 2025, sellers in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone must also provide defensible space and home hardening disclosures under Civil Code sections 1102.19 and 1102.6f. Known material facts must be disclosed even when no form asks about them directly, and failing to disclose is the most common reason a California sale ends in litigation.
Commission is the largest line and it is always negotiable — the California Department of Real Estate is explicit about that. Beyond it: county documentary transfer tax, a city transfer tax in some jurisdictions, Los Angeles properties above the Measure ULA thresholds, escrow and title fees, a natural hazard disclosure report, and any repairs negotiated after the inspection. Who customarily pays which item varies by county rather than by statute, so it is negotiable too. Our closing cost calculator itemises all of it.
Yes, materially. Offers of buyer-agent compensation are no longer published in the MLS, and buyers now sign a written agreement with their own agent setting out how that agent is paid before touring. For a seller this means what you contribute toward a buyer’s agent is a negotiation rather than a convention, and it happens explicitly rather than by default. It has always been negotiable; it is now visibly so.
It is the most common seller instinct and usually the most expensive one. A listing gets its largest audience in its first two weeks, and a price that is wrong during that window spends the attention it will never get back. Price reductions also become part of the public history a buyer sees. Pricing to the comparable evidence at the start, and being able to show the comparables, beats starting high nearly every time.
The details come to our team and appear in our console. Someone reads them and comes back to you — a person, not an automated sequence. You will also get a confirmation by email, and replying to it reaches us directly rather than bouncing off a no-reply address.