{"id":69,"date":"2026-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"california-owners-55-can-transfer-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/03\/california-owners-55-can-transfer-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"California Owners 55+ Can Transfer Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/joanna-lopez\/over-55-in-california-you-can-sell-the-house-and-take-your-1985-property-tax-bill-with-you-9d6d\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>California owners 55+ can sell a longtime primary home, buy a replacement anywhere statewide, and carry over the old assessed value up to three times.<br \/>\nThe transfer works best when the new home costs the same or less; if it costs more, the transferred assessment rises by that difference.<br \/>\nThe law also covers severe disability and wildfire or declared-disaster losses, but age and disability transfers count toward the three-use lifetime limit.<br \/>\nBoth homes must be principal residences, and owners must buy or build within two years, then file the county claim within two years.<br \/>\nFamilies planning ahead should note this benefit stays inside California, and inherited low assessments now usually require the heir to live there.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California owners 55+ can sell a longtime primary home, buy a replacement anywhere statewide, and carry over the old assessed value up to three times. The transfer works best when the new home costs the same or less; if it costs more, the transferred assessment rises by that difference. The law also covers severe disability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joannalopez.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}