Boca Raton Estate Liquidation | Estate Sales in Boca Raton, FL

A Boca Raton estate liquidation is a company that clears a home's contents — through a public estate sale, an outright buyout, or an auction — so the family or personal representative is not pricing, staffing, and closing the sale alone. Estate Seller Match takes one free Boca Raton request and sources the job: matching for a public estate sale, a contents buyout, an estate cleanout, or a full liquidation. That request is the product — describe the house, the city, any hard date, and which method you want. Profiles on this page are self-submitted, not an independent background check, and a listing is not proof a company has already run a sale on your street in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens. Compare a written public-sale contract with a written buyout offer, ask whether a company has actually worked an address like yours, and confirm who is legally allowed to sign before anything is tagged or hauled. This page is a matching resource, not legal advice and not a law firm.

Not in the Boca Raton area? Browse estate sale companies near me to find your city. For the longer Boca services write-up, see estate liquidation services in Boca Raton. If you mean contents plus the house itself, that phrase lives on property liquidation in Boca Raton.

This Boca Raton block is a matching resource for families and personal representatives. It is not legal advice, not tax advice, and Estate Seller Match is not a law firm. Listings below are self-submitted company profiles, not an independent audit, background check, or a promise that a specific liquidator covers your block.

How a Boca Raton or Palm Beach County Estate Actually Gets Liquidated

Most Boca Raton contents jobs start the same way, whether the address is a single-family house, a condo that cannot host a crowd, or a home the family is emptying before a closing. Someone with authority walks the house. A company proposes one or more methods — a public estate sale, a buyout of the contents, an auction, or a cleanout with no sale. If you hire them, they price or bid the goods, handle (or tell you to handle) any city sale permit, run the event or the pickup, pay you under the contract, and deal with leftovers by donation, a secondary buyer, or a cleanout you pay for separately. The differences that actually matter in this part of Palm Beach County are who is allowed to sign, which city the driveway sits in, and whether the building or HOA will let strangers through the lobby.

A downsizing or moving sale, where the owner is alive and present, is a contract between that owner and the company. A death-related estate is different. Personal property that was the decedent's usually has to be sold by the person the probate court has appointed, or by a surviving owner who already holds title (for example a joint owner or a trustee of a funded living trust). The Florida Bar's consumer pamphlet Probate in Florida (updated January 2021) says probate is the court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the decedent's assets, paying debts, and distributing what remains, and that Florida uses the term personal representative instead of executor. The pamphlet also says probate assets are those owned in the decedent's sole name, or owned with others without automatic succession — and that a jointly titled account, a payable-on-death designation, or property held as tenants by the entirety is often not a probate asset. If you are an heir who has not been appointed, you generally cannot shop the dining room to a liquidator and call it the estate's deal. Ask the probate attorney which document — Letters of Administration, a summary-administration order, a trust certification, or a deed — you should show the company before the walkthrough becomes a contract.

Non-probate paths still need a paper trail. A house and its contents can sit in a living trust, pass by beneficiary designation, or already belong to a surviving spouse. Those facts change who signs, not whether the furniture still has to be priced, advertised, and carried out. The Florida Bar pamphlet says the trustee of a revocable living trust must file a Notice of Trust with the clerk in the county where the decedent resided, and that the trustee still has to handle creditor issues even when there is no full probate. A liquidator cannot decide trust versus probate for you. What they can do is refuse to start until the signer matches the documents. That refusal is a feature, not a delay tactic, when the alternative is selling property the signer does not control. For a general primer, see do you need probate before an estate sale — then confirm the Florida rule with counsel.

Palm Beach County Clerk and the 15th Circuit: Where the Probate File Lives

Boca Raton probate is a Palm Beach County matter, not a city court. The Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller publishes a Probate of Estates FAQ and a probate department number, (561) 355-2986. The clerk's probate page lists the case types it actually dockets: caveat (Florida Statute 731.110), notice of trust (736.05055), formal administration (Chapter 733), summary administration (735.201), disposition of personal property without administration (735.301), petition to admit a foreign will, trust proceedings, curatorship, and deposited wills (732.901). The clerk says you can search court records on mypalmbeachclerk.com by case number or the decedent's name; guests see the case name, number, parties, and docket titles, while probate documents themselves are not viewable online except by parties or the attorney of record. To read the file you go to a clerk office or request copies by mail. Mail for the probate division is P.O. Box 4667, West Palm Beach, FL 33402.

The clerk is blunt about what it will not do. It cannot give legal advice on whether your facts require a probate case. It cannot tell you when a claim will be paid. It cannot tell you which closing papers you are missing. Letters of Administration, the clerk says, are court orders issued as part of formal administration; they give a personal representative authority to begin administering the estate, including talking to banks, and you cannot obtain those letters without opening a probate case. A will does not, by itself, skip probate: an estate can be testate (there is a will) or intestate (there is not). The original will cannot be e-filed. The clerk requires the original will to be hand-delivered or mailed, and cites Florida Statute 732.901: the will should be filed with the clerk in the county where the decedent resided within 10 days of death, with a certified death certificate or other proof of the date of death. The Florida Bar pamphlet repeats that 10-day deposit rule and notes there is no fee to deposit the will, though a filing fee is due when a probate matter is opened.

Which courthouse gets the file is a zip-code assignment, not a Boca Raton preference. The clerk says the zip code of the petitioner's attorney's office — or the decedent's last known address if there is no attorney — determines the courthouse, and that the Chief Judge lists those assignments in Administrative Order 6.101. The 15th Judicial Circuit's Probate Division page gives the three physical addresses for original wills, death certificates, and other originals: Main Courthouse / Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley Courthouse, PBC Clerk & Comptroller, 205 North Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, FL 33401; South County, 200 West Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444; and North County, 3188 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 — each marked Attention: Probate Department. The circuit's homepage lists those same three buildings plus West County in Belle Glade. Proposed probate orders, both the clerk and the circuit say, go through the circuit's Online Scheduling system only — not in person, not by mail, not by email, and not through the e-filing portal. The clerk's FAQ, fetched for this rewrite, stated a 6-to-8-week wait for orders from the probate court, longer depending on the case, and that once proposed orders are with the judge the clerk does not know the status.

None of that tells you which sale method to pick. It does tell you where the appointment lives, which is the document a careful liquidator will ask to see. If the decedent last lived in Broward County (Deerfield Beach is the usual example people mix with Boca), the Palm Beach County clerk is the wrong office. Confirm the county of residence with counsel before you tell a liquidator "the Boca court said we can sell." This site is summarizing published clerk, circuit, Bar, and statute pages. It is not a substitute for a Palm Beach County probate lawyer on your case.

Formal, Summary, and Disposition Without Administration — What the Official Pages Actually Say

The clerk's FAQ asks what disposition of personal property without administration, summary administration, and formal administration are, and points to the Florida Statutes for each. It also says you are not required to hire an attorney for disposition without administration or for summary administration, but that Florida law requires an attorney to file formal administration. The clerk will mail a free packet for disposition without administration (Self-Service Center, 561-355-7048). It has no required premade forms for summary administration (the 15th Circuit law library has a template packet) and no forms for formal administration because of that attorney requirement.

We are citing the 2026 Florida Statutes for the dollar tests, not an older pamphlet figure. Florida Statute 735.201, as posted on Official Sunshine for 2026, says summary administration may be had when, in a testate estate, the will does not direct administration under Chapter 733, and when the value of the entire estate subject to administration in this state, less property exempt from creditors, does not exceed $150,000 — or the decedent has been dead more than two years. The history line on that posting includes chapter 2026-57. The Florida Bar pamphlet, last updated January 2021, still describes the same two-year path but uses a $75,000 figure. The pamphlet itself warns that the law changes and some provisions may be out of date. For a matching page, the official 2026 statute is the number we will repeat. Whether your estate qualifies is a lawyer question, not a liquidator's.

Florida Statute 735.301 is narrower still. Disposition without administration applies when the estate leaves only personal property exempt under section 732.402, personal property exempt from creditors under the Florida Constitution, and nonexempt personal property whose value does not exceed preferred funeral expenses plus reasonable medical and hospital expenses of the last 60 days of the last illness. The court may then authorize payment, transfer, or disposition of that personal property to the people entitled. A furnished Boca Raton house full of ordinary furniture is not something we will shoehorn into that statute. If someone tells you a walkthrough pricing sheet is the same as a clerk authorization under 735.301, it is not.

Formal administration is the path that produces Letters of Administration and a personal representative. The Bar pamphlet says that person must identify, gather, value, and safeguard probate assets; publish a notice to creditors; serve a notice of administration; search for known or reasonably ascertainable creditors; object to improper claims; pay valid ones; file tax returns; hire professionals (the pamphlet lists attorneys, CPAs, appraisers, and investment advisers); and distribute what remains. Even a simple estate, the pamphlet says, stays open at least through the three-month creditor claim period. That calendar — not a matching website's preference — is often what decides whether a public sale weekend is realistic or whether a buyout and a cleanout are the only way to hit a listing or closing date. We are not telling you your estate is formal, summary, or something else. Read the order in the file, or have the attorney read it, before you lock a sale weekend or accept a buyout.

Florida Statute 733.603 says a personal representative proceeds without court order unless the code or a court order says otherwise. Statute 733.612 lets that person, unless the will or a court order says otherwise, employ appraisers and sell personal property of the estate. Statute 733.608 puts real and personal property in the representative's hands except protected homestead — so a contents sale is not a homestead sale. Statute 733.604 requires a verified date-of-death inventory; a walkthrough price sheet is not that inventory.

Buyout vs. Public Estate Sale vs. Auction

Boca Raton families usually hear three contents methods. They are not ranked, and not every company offers all three. Ask which ones the company actually runs — not which words are on the homepage.

This is a method comparison, not a price list. Proceeds, commissions, and buyout offers are company-specific. A tagged public sale is not the same thing as a live auction. For the method split in more detail, see estate sale vs. auction vs. buyout and estate sale vs. estate liquidation. If only a few pieces are valuable and the rest is ordinary household goods, also read estate sale vs. consignment before you commit to a full-house event. The longer Boca services article is estate liquidation services in Boca Raton — use it as a guide, and use this URL to submit the matching request.

What Boca Raton Estate Liquidation Costs — Company-Specific, Not a Blended Table

We removed the old Boca Raton commission table (percentage bands, estimated gross of $4,000–$10,000 and up, and calculated net by bedroom count). Those figures were not a verified Palm Beach County rate survey, and publishing a new blended table would repeat the same problem. Commission on a public sale, the size of a buyout, any minimum fee, and whether cleanout or donation hauling is included are terms you get from a written contract with a specific company. They vary with the mix of goods, access to the house, how much the company has to do before opening day, and whether the company is taking resale risk on a buyout.

Use how much estate sale companies charge and the estate sale company contract checklist for the questions that belong in every contract: the percentage or the lump sum, what is excluded, when you are paid, who pays credit-card fees, and what happens to unsold items. If two Boca Raton companies quote different structures — a lower percentage with a high minimum, versus a higher percentage that includes cleanout — compare the whole page, not the headline rate. Do not sign from a walkthrough conversation.

Property Liquidation Is a Different URL

Searchers use "property liquidation Boca Raton" for two jobs that should not compete on one page: contents (the furniture, art, and garage) and the real property (the house, condo, or investment unit heading toward a sale or closing). This companies page matches the contents job — estate liquidation, estate sales, buyouts, auctions, and cleanouts. The phrase property liquidation already has a live URL at property liquidation in Boca Raton. If you need the house sold or a contents-plus-closing plan, start there and still send the matching request so we can source the empty-house work. If the asset is commercial, use Boca Raton business liquidation instead of this household page.

Estate Cleanout and Closing-Date Jobs Are Real Requests

A public estate sale is only one product. Families also need the house empty for a listing, a buyer walkthrough, or a closing. That is a cleanout, a buyout, or a full liquidation — and those are jobs Estate Seller Match sources. Say the hard date on the form. Ask the company for a broom-clean date in the contract, not a hope. Unsold goods after a sale are a separate line item unless the contract says otherwise; see what happens to unsold items after an estate sale and how much an estate cleanout costs for the questions, not for a Boca price we did not verify.

People who search "Boca Raton closing services" are often looking for that empty-house plan, not a title company. We do not sell title, escrow, or real-estate brokerage on this page. We do source the contents side of a closing: buyout, sale-plus-cleanout, or haul-out so the keys can transfer. If the holdup is the real property itself, that is the property-liquidation URL above. If the personal representative lives out of state, also read estate sale when the executor lives out of state — Florida still uses personal representative as the formal title.

City and Service-Radius Questions — Not a Coverage Map

We do not certify that Estate Seller Match has a company on your street, in your building, or in any named subdivision. Treat these names as questions to ask, not as neighborhoods we have staffed for you.

• • Boca Raton is its own city with its own garage-sale ordinance. Ask whether the company has actually run a public sale or a buyout at a Boca Raton address in the last year, and who pulls any city permit.
• • Delray Beach is a separately incorporated city to the north. A Boca Raton service-area line on a profile is not proof of a Delray sale. Ask for a named recent job there if that is where the house is.
• • Palm Beach Gardens is a separately incorporated city farther north, and it is also where the 15th Circuit's North County courthouse sits. Ask the same track-record question. Do not assume a Boca crew treats that drive as regular work.
• • Condos, gated streets, and HOAs are common in this market and can block a public sale even when the city would allow one. Ask about loading docks, visitor registration, elevator reservations, and whether the company has cleared that building's rules. For the general condo problem, see condo and apartment estate sales.
• • Deerfield Beach is in Broward County. If the house is there, say so — do not file the job as Boca Raton and hope a Palm Beach County company covers it.

If a profile lists "Boca Raton" or "Palm Beach County" as a service area, that is the company's own statement. Verify it. We will not invent a coverage map, and we will not treat a sample listing as a real company already booked for your block.

Permits: City of Boca Raton — And What We Could Not Verify

The City of Boca Raton publishes a Garage Sale Permits page for Ordinance 5470. It requires a simple permit that is free and can be obtained on the city website or over the counter. Homeowners apply online or in person; the city says permits can be issued Monday through Friday with a typical 24-hour approval. Garage sales cannot run more than two consecutive days, only between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and no more than four times at the same residence in a year. One sign is permitted on the premises, up no more than 24 hours before the sale and down within 24 hours after. For a weekend sale, the city tells applicants to finish the application before Friday at 4:00 p.m. Rain-outs and date changes go to Code Compliance at CodeCompliance@myboca.us or 561-393-7934. The city says code staff educate first; repeat offenders may receive a $150 citation, with fees increasing for further non-compliance. The property-maintenance page repeats that garage-sale permits are free but required, cites section 28-1311, and lists the same $150 fine.

Those official pages talk about garage and yard sales. They do not publish a separately titled "estate sale permit." Boca Raton Code section 28-2, fetched on Municode this session, defines garage sale as a general sale, open to the public, conducted from or on a property with an existing residential use, by the residents thereof, for the purpose of disposing of personal property, and says the term includes, but is not limited to, a yard sale, lawn sale, estate sale, rummage sale, tag sale or any similar sale. That is why a public estate sale or tag sale inside city limits should be treated as a garage sale under Ordinance 5470 unless the company can show you a different official rule. We did not load the full live text of section 28-1311 (the enforcement section the property-maintenance page cites), so we are not quoting that section beyond the city's $150 fine note. Ask the company who creates the online application and whose name is on the permit. A buyout or a private pickup with no public sale is a different activity — do not assume the garage-sale form applies, and do not assume it does not. HOA and condo rules are separate from the city permit and can be stricter.

Palm Beach Gardens is not Boca Raton. The city publishes a form at pbgfl.gov/forms.aspx?fid=94 whose body describes reasonable use of residential property for yard sales or garage sales, a $20.00 permit fee, and conditions: items offered for profit limited to personal property not acquired for resale, owned by the applicant, who shall be a resident of the dwelling; personal property from several donors only if a nonprofit joins the application and receives the entire net proceeds; one on-site sign not over four square feet and up to three additional signs in the general area. The same form says the permit expires three months after the issue date. The page chrome on the day we fetched it was labeled Tree Removal Permit even though that sale text is on the form — we are quoting the sale paragraph we read, not inventing a second ordinance. A professional estate sale run by a non-resident company may not fit the "resident of the dwelling" sentence. Ask the company how it handles a Palm Beach Gardens address, and call the city if the answer is vague.

We did not find and verify a current official Delray Beach estate-sale or garage-sale permit page this session. We are not inventing a Delray rule from Boca's ordinance or from a third-party summary. If the house is in Delray Beach, unincorporated Palm Beach County, Highland Beach, or another city, ask the company to show you that city's current rule, or call that clerk or code office yourself. For the general permit question, see do you need a permit for an estate sale — then use the official page that actually applies to the driveway.

Does Florida License Estate Sale Companies?

DBPR's Board of Auctioneers licenses auctioneers (AU), auctioneer apprentices (AE), and auction businesses (AB). The board's own page defines an auctioneer as a person who holds a valid Florida auctioneer license, an apprentice as a person being trained by a licensed auctioneer, and an auction business as a firm that in the regular course of business arranges, manages, sponsors, advertises, promotes, or carries out auctions. DBPR's "What Requires a License" page says an auctioneer is paid to auction someone's property for compensation, that bidders win by placing the highest bid, that the auctioneer and owner must sign a written agreement before the auction, and that a person may not operate an auction or auction business without a DBPR license. Florida Statute 468.385 says no person shall auction or offer to auction any property in this state unless licensed or exempt, and that no business shall auction or offer to auction unless licensed as an auction business or exempt. Statute 468.388 requires a written agreement with the owner before the auction, an active licensed auctioneer (or a supervised apprentice) under a licensed auction business, license display or announcement at the site, and advertising that includes the Florida license number.

The same DBPR FAQ is useful for what an auctioneer license does not do. A licensed auctioneer cannot auction real property without a real-estate broker's license; a licensed broker may auction real estate without an auctioneer license. If you represent yourself or your business to the public as an auctioneer or auction business — including online — DBPR says you must be licensed or you may be cited for unlicensed activity. Charity auctions are exempt when the organization (or a person who receives no compensation) conducts them. Statute 468.383 also exempts, among other things, auctions by the owner or the owner's attorney of property the owner did not acquire to resell, and auctions that are part of a real-property sale by a broker.

We did not find a DBPR program titled estate sale company, estate liquidator, or tag sale. We are not inventing one. A tagged house sale with fixed prices is not the competitive-bid activity DBPR describes as an auction. If any part of the Boca Raton job is a live or advertised auction, the licenses to check are the auctioneer's AU record and the auction business AB record in DBPR's license search. If someone claims they are "state licensed" as an estate sale company, ask which agency and which number, then look it up. Credentials you can actually check on a tagged sale are the written contract, the insurance certificate, and named references from recent sales the company will let you call.

Questions to Ask a Boca Raton Estate Liquidator

• • Who signs the contract — owner, personal representative with Letters of Administration, someone acting under a summary-administration or 735.301 authorization, or trustee — and what document will you copy into the file?
• • Have you run a sale or a buyout at an address like this one (Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, a condo, a gated street) in the last year? Who staffed it?
• • Which method are you proposing, and will you also put the alternative in writing (sale vs. buyout vs. auction vs. cleanout)?
• • What is the commission or the buyout number, the minimum, credit-card fees, and the cleanout or donation charge if anything remains?
• • Who applies for the City of Boca Raton garage-sale permit if the public sale is inside city limits, and whose name is on it? If the house is in Palm Beach Gardens or Delray Beach, which rule are you following?
• • If any part of the job is a live or advertised auction, what are the auctioneer's AU and auction-business AB license numbers?
• • What insurance do you carry for public sale days, and will you send the certificate before we sign?
• • What happens to unsold items, and on what day is the house broom-clean?
• • When are proceeds paid, and to which estate or trust account?

Red Flags When You Compare Boca Raton Liquidators

• • A company that will not put commission, buyout price, minimums, permit handling, and unsold-item terms in writing before you commit
• • Pressure to sign the same day, before a second written proposal or before the personal representative's attorney has seen the draft
• • "We cover South Florida" with no named sale they will let you verify in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens
• • A claim that Florida "licenses estate sale companies" without an agency and a license number you can search at DBPR
• • A walkthrough number presented as the inventory or the authorization the probate court requires
• • No answer on who pulls the Boca Raton garage-sale permit when the house is inside city limits and the plan is a public sale

For a longer list of hiring traps, see how to avoid estate sale scams. A matching directory is a shortlist, not a substitute for that checklist.

How Matching Works on This Page

Submit one free request with the city, the reason for the sale, any hard date (closing, lease end, travel), and a short description of the house. Say whether you want a public estate sale, a contents buyout, a live or online auction, an estate cleanout, or a full liquidation that includes leftover haul-out. That request is a real lead Estate Seller Match sources — matching, buyout, cleanout, and liquidation are the product. The cards on this page show what companies entered on their own profiles: service area, specialties, and any commission range they chose to publish. A claimed or verified mark means the company has claimed the profile. It does not mean we inspected its insurance file, checked a DBPR auctioneer license, or confirmed a sale in your building.

Response time after we pass the request is the company's. Companies often advertise that they can schedule a first look on short notice; that is marketplace language, not a walkthrough date from us. Ask for the first available walkthrough date in writing. We will not invent a company name, a 555 number, or a claim that a specific provider is already booked for your block. We will work the request.

Estate Liquidation Companies Near Me

If you searched for estate liquidation Boca Raton FL or estate sales Boca Raton FL, this companies URL is the local matching page for those queries — not a new national near-me site. Use the form on this page when the house is in Boca Raton or a nearby city you want a Palm Beach County liquidator to drive to. Ask the near-me question as a radius and a track record: how far will you travel, and when did you last run a sale in this ZIP? If you searched for estate liquidation services Boca Raton FL, that phrase already has a live guide — open estate liquidation services in Boca Raton for the longer write-up, and use this URL to submit the matching request. If you are not in this area, go to the estate sale companies near me index and pick the city that matches the house. Do not treat a Boca Raton liquidator page as a statewide directory.

What to Put in a Boca Raton Matching, Buyout, Cleanout, or Liquidation Request

The form on this page is the request Estate Seller Match works. Fill it as if you are sending a job to a company you will actually hire. The more specific the request, the faster a liquidator, buyout buyer, or public-sale company can decide whether the house is a walkthrough they can staff.

• • City and ZIP of the house — Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, or another city — not just "South Florida."
• • Why the contents have to move: death and probate, downsizing, a real-estate closing, a lease end, or an out-of-state personal representative who cannot run a sale weekend.
• • The hard date, if there is one (closing, lockbox change, travel). That is the fact that usually decides buyout versus a public sale.
• • Which method you want sourced: public estate sale, lump-sum buyout, auction, estate cleanout, or a full liquidation that includes leftover haul-out. You can ask for more than one written proposal.
• • Who will sign — owner, personal representative (and whether Letters of Administration are in hand), someone under a summary or 735.301 path, or trustee — and which county the probate file is in, if there is one.
• • A short contents note: ordinary household goods, a house that is still fully furnished, or categories that often need a separate plan (vehicles, firearms, jewelry). Do not send account numbers or a full inventory on the first form.
• • Access facts that change staffing: HOA or gate, condo elevator, no driveway, or a house that cannot host the public.

If the assets are a restaurant, office, retail floor, or warehouse instead of a household, use the Boca Raton business liquidation page. Household estate liquidators and commercial liquidators are different jobs. Everything we publish for this city is indexed on the Boca Raton services hub.

Sources (fetched 2026-08-21)

• • Palm Beach County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Probate of Estates FAQ — Letters of Administration, attorney required for formal administration, 10-day will deposit under § 732.901, original will cannot be e-filed, zip-code courthouse assignment, case search limits, 6–8 week order wait, mailing address P.O. Box 4667, West Palm Beach, FL 33402, probate phone (561) 355-2986: mypalmbeachclerk.com/about-us/frequently-asked-questions-faq/probate-of-estates-faq
• • Palm Beach County Clerk, Probate of Estates — case types (formal / summary / disposition without administration / notice of trust / deposited wills) and OLS-only proposed orders: mypalmbeachclerk.com/departments/courts/probate-of-estates
• • 15th Judicial Circuit, Probate Division — original-document addresses at Main (205 N. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach), South County (200 W. Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach), and North County (3188 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens); OLS for proposed orders; ex parte docket suspended: 15thcircuit.com/services/probate-division
• • 15th Judicial Circuit homepage — same three courthouse locations plus West County, Belle Glade: 15thcircuit.com
• • The Florida Bar, Consumer Pamphlet: Probate in Florida (updated January 2021) — personal representative, Letters, probate vs. non-probate assets, 10-day will deposit, notice of trust, creditor period, formal vs. summary vs. disposition without administration. The pamphlet still states a $75,000 summary-administration figure; see the 2026 statute below. The pamphlet warns that some provisions may be out of date: floridabar.org/public/consumer/pamphlet026
• • Florida Statute § 735.201 (2026 posting on Official Sunshine) — summary administration when the estate subject to administration, less exempt property, does not exceed $150,000 or the decedent has been dead more than two years (history includes ch. 2026-57): leg.state.fl.us … 735.201
• • Florida Statute § 735.301 (2026) — disposition without administration limited to exempt personal property plus nonexempt personal property not exceeding preferred funeral expenses and last-60-days medical bills: leg.state.fl.us … 735.301
• • City of Boca Raton, Garage Sale Permits (Ordinance 5470) — free permit, 24-hour weekday approval, four sales per year, two consecutive days, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., one on-site sign, Friday 4:00 p.m. weekend cutoff, $150 repeat-offender citation: myboca.us/1627/Garage-Sale-Permits
• • City of Boca Raton, Property Maintenance Information — garage-sale permits free but required, SEC. 28-1311, fine $150: myboca.us/443/Property-Maintenance-Information
• • Boca Raton Code section 28-2 (Municode) defines garage sale to include a yard sale, lawn sale, estate sale, rummage sale, tag sale or any similar sale. Source: library.municode.com section 28-2. Section 28-1311 full text was not loaded this session; the $150 fine is from the city property-maintenance page only.
• • Florida Statutes 733.603, 733.604, 733.608, and 733.612 (2026 Official Sunshine) — personal representative may proceed and sell personal property without court order unless the will or a court order says otherwise; verified inventory; homestead excepted from estate assets in the representative hands. Official postings: 733.612 and neighboring 733 sections on Official Sunshine.
• • City of Palm Beach Gardens published form (body text describes yard/garage sales, $20.00 fee, resident-owned personal property, sign limits, three-month expiration). Page chrome on fetch was labeled Tree Removal Permit; we quote the sale paragraph on that URL only: pbgfl.gov/forms.aspx?fid=94
• • Delray Beach — no current official garage-sale or estate-sale permit page was verified this session. No Delray rule is quoted.
• • Florida DBPR, What Requires a License — Auctioneers (written agreement, highest-bid definition, license required to operate an auction or auction business): ula.myfloridalicense.com/what-requires-a-license
• • Florida DBPR, Board of Auctioneers (AU / AE / AB license types): www2.myfloridalicense.com/auctioneers
• • Florida DBPR, Auctioneers FAQs — online representation requires a license; auctioneer license does not authorize auction of real property; charity auctions without compensation are exempt: www2.myfloridalicense.com/auctioneers/faqs
• • Florida Statute § 468.382 (definitions), § 468.383 (exemptions), § 468.385 (licenses required), and § 468.388 (conduct of an auction — written agreement, licensed auctioneer under a licensed auction business, license display, advertising must include Florida license number), 2026 Official Sunshine postings: 468.382, 468.383, 468.385, 468.388

If It's a Business, Not a Household, in Boca Raton

Estate sale companies are built around household contents. A closing restaurant, a vacated office, or a warehouse full of racking needs a commercial liquidator instead, and the two rarely overlap. Estates that include a small business fall somewhere in between, so it is worth reading both sides before you call anyone. Everything we cover in Boca Raton is indexed on the Boca Raton services hub.

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