Selling a house in Connecticut: the paperwork
Every document a Connecticut sale commonly touches, who usually produces it, and the law behind it. In most sales the seller's own share is small, and this page shows you which part that usually is.
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Usually the seller's to produce
3In most sales nobody else prepares these. Whether each one applies to you depends on your home, your title, and your buyer.
- Residential Property Condition Report (Rev. 07/2025)
- Residential Foundation Condition Report (if triggered)
- Federal lead-paint disclosure (pre-1978)
Usually somebody else's to prepare
9Commonly handled by a title company, an attorney, a lender, or the county. Listed so none of them is a surprise.
- Deed (statutory warranty)
- Conveyance tax returns (OP-236 state; municipal)
- Closing conduct / disbursement
- Title search & title insurance
- Payoff statements
- Recording of deed
- HOA/condo resale certificate & docsOn your list because is the home in an hoa, condo, or co-op
- Purchase & sale agreement
- Transfer-tax remittance/receipt
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Set up my roomHow Connecticut generally runs a sale
The broad shape of a sale there, as the research found it. Counties and cities add their own rules on top of all of this.
Other things Connecticut asks about
These come up in Connecticut and almost nowhere else. We don't ask them above because we can't answer them for you yet, but they're worth raising with your title company.
- CT-1. Have you retained a Connecticut-licensed closing attorney? (Mandatory under § 51-88a.)
- CT-2. Is the property in the crumbling-foundation belt (Hartford/Tolland/Windham)?
- CT-4. Has the DCP Residential Property Condition Report (Rev. 07/2025) been completed and delivered pre-contract, or will the seller take the $500 credit?
- CT-5. Is the municipality one of the 19 eligible for an elevated municipal conveyance tax?
- CT-6. Will the seller owe the 2.25% top-tier conveyance tax, and does the seller intend to remain a CT resident for the six-year recovery?
Before you rely on any of this
This is a compilation of published state requirements, not legal advice, and no lawyer has reviewed it or your sale. Laws and forms change, counties and cities add their own rules, and whether any of this applies to you depends on facts we don't know. Treat every item as a starting point for a question, not as an answer. Confirm anything you plan to rely on against the official source we link, and run your list past a title company or an attorney licensed in your state.
These counts describe a typical sale, not yours. Which documents you need turns on facts about your home, your title, your buyer, and your county, and one unusual answer can add several or remove them.
Who prepares each document is what usually happens, not a rule. Practice differs between states, between counties, and between one title company and the next, and your contract can move work from one side to the other.
Keighbor is not a real estate brokerage and does not represent you. Nobody here is your agent. We don't negotiate, set your price, recommend a course of action, or take a commission. We provide software that helps you organize your side of the sale.
The full Connecticut reference
The rest of the research, with every citation kept. This is the same material our own product is built on, and nothing is held back for paying customers. It describes the law as the research found it, not as it applies to your sale.
ALWAYS-Required Documents
- Deed (statutory warranty; drafted/supervised by CT attorney) — [ATTORNEY].
- Residential Property Condition Report, DCP Rev. 07/2025, delivered pre-contract (or accept the $500 credit) — [SELLER].
- State conveyance tax return, Form OP-236, and payment of CGS § 12-494 tax — [ATTORNEY]/[TITLE/ESCROW].
- Municipal conveyance tax payment/receipt at the town clerk — [TOWN/CITY CLERK]/[GOV/TAX].
- Federal lead-based paint disclosure for pre-1978 housing — [SELLER].
- Attorney-conducted closing with supervised disbursement — [ATTORNEY].
- Recorded deed at the municipal land records — [TOWN/CITY CLERK].
SOMETIMES-Required Documents (Triggered)
- Residential Foundation Condition Report — triggered where the property is in a CRCOG-designated crumbling-foundation town AND was acquired by (1) a political subdivision, (2) a judgment of strict foreclosure, (3) foreclosure by sale, or (4) deed in lieu.
- UST disclosure/closure documentation — § 22a-449/DEEP.
- Condominium/association resale documents — CGS Ch. 828.
- Power of attorney — attorney-supervised.
- Estate/fiduciary documents — probate certificates, fiduciary deeds.
- Well water / septic (B100a) — private systems.
- FIRPTA affidavit — foreign seller.
- Smoke/CO detector compliance affidavit — where required.
Prescribed-Language Items (Substance Over Form)
- The $500 credit recital. "The seller will be required to credit the purchaser with the sum of $500 at closing if the seller fails to furnish this report (Connecticut General Statutes Section 20-327c)."
- UPCDA preamble. The Act "requires the seller of residential property to provide this disclosure to the prospective purchaser prior to the prospective purchaser's execution of any binder, contract to purchase, option, or lease containing a purchase option."
- Federal lead warning statement (40 C.F.R. Part 745).
- Statutory deed covenants — the "statutory form" heading and covenant language under CGS §§ 47-36c et seq.
Local / Municipal Overlays
- Municipal conveyance tax variation. Base 0.25%; up to 0.5% in the 19 eligible municipalities (historically Bloomfield, Bridgeport, Bristol, East Hartford, Groton, Hamden, Hartford, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Southington, Stamford, Thomaston, Waterbury, Windham).
- Crumbling foundation / pyrrhotite belt. Hartford, Tolland, Windham county towns; separate Residential Foundation Condition Report (Rev. 07/2025).
- Restrictive-covenant renunciation. Public Act 21-173.
Post-Closing Obligations
- Recording at town clerk's land records (CGS § 47-10).
- Conveyance tax remittance. OP-236 (state) and municipal tax paid at recording.
- Payoff and release of prior mortgages.
- 1099-S reporting.
- Retention of the signed disclosure report.
Federal Overlays (Cross-Reference)
- FinCEN Residential Real Estate Rule — effective March 1, 2026, then VACATED March 19, 2026 in Flowers Title Companies, LLC v. Bessent, No. 6:25-cv-127-JDK (E.D. Tex.). FinCEN appealed to the Fifth Circuit May 11, 2026; circuit split with Fidelity National Financial, Inc. v. Bessent (M.D. Fla.). TREAT AS SUSPENDED.
- Federal lead-based paint disclosure (Title X; 42 U.S.C. § 4852d; 40 C.F.R. Part 745).
- FIRPTA (26 U.S.C. § 1445).
- 1099-S reporting.