Selling Your Property

Selling Your Property

Ready to sell your church property? We protect your tax-exempt status every step of the way.

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Articles & Resources

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With Bushore Church Real Estate, you receive a full and experienced, in-house representation for all of your legal, corporate, and real property needs.

Bushore Church Real Estate specializes in nearly all matters concerning Church Real Estate, including religious, nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. We are a father and son California Real Estate team, having offices in both northern and southern California. Over decades of carving out a name for ourselves among church groups, we found a niche with locating and/or uniting church property buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants. Most of our work helps congregations stay healthy and avoid legal trouble in the first place. But when a congregation is genuinely facing a sale, a relocation, or the difficult decision to close, we walk alongside you through that process too, protecting your tax-exempt status and your congregation's interests every step of the way. Along the way, our skills have been fine-tuned covering all aspects of forming, maintaining, merging and dissolving nonprofit organizations and other business entities, and the establishment of federal and state tax-exempt status. We can also help set up your foundations.

Over the years, Bushore Church Real Estate has represented numerous small individual nondenominational churches, on up to major worldwide religious organizations. As a result, we have maintained exclusive relationships with our clients regarding all their real estate needs. In addition, we have generated long relationships with secular and parochial schools as they either expand or cease to operate.

Not just Church Real Estate

Our legal work extends well beyond real estate transactions. Through our close interactions with church congregations, we have also assisted individual members with general real estate matters, landlord/tenant disputes, estate planning including wills and trusts, resolving property liens, and defending against right of way and eminent domain threats. Click here to see an abridged list of the legal and real estate services Bushore Church Real Estate provides. We do not handle employment law matters. We also work with cemeteries and mortuaries, even selling a few along the way.

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Customer Reviews About Bushore Church Real Estate

  •   Ryan provided excellent service to me and my family. He helped us through the entire process of forming an LLC and the purchase of a commercial building. He provided pros and cons of some decisions we had to make, and he prepared and provided all the legal documentation we needed including lease contracts. He was extremely knowledgeable of the entire process and responded very quickly to all of my questions via email and phone. It was a seamless process thanks to Ryan.

    thumb Elizabeth B.
    2/04/2018
  •   We have worked with both Ryan and Gerald. Both are very knowledgeable and friendly. They worked with us in selling our building and later closing our operations. Both processes went quickly and smoothly. We would highly recommend doing business with either of them.

    thumb St. Matthew L.
    1/12/2018
  •   In all my dealings with brokers and escrow, I have never encountered the expertise and professionalism that I experienced from Bushore. Both the father and son are a wealth of information and they think of everything that you could possibly think of when it comes to doing everything right when it comes to buying and selling property. They also can help write contracts and rental agreements. I was entirely impressed with them in entire process that we purchased church building.

    thumb Stephen F.
    6/08/2018
  •   Worked with Ryan Bushore for a year so far at a church with a huge, yet aging, facility. In the past year I have worked with Ryan, I have found him to be extremely knowledgable in many different aspects of facility management. He is professional and an expert in multiple fields from law, real estate, to construction. Even though his schedule is often packed, he will do what he can to make time for our staff/team as we learn how to sustain an aging property. He is patient with us and will get more than what's required of him done where we are limited - which is why the church is extremely grateful and appreciative of Ryan (although I know the church also has a much longer history and relationship with Ryan's father, Gerald). I know Ryan cares for the church as he would often do what he can first and foremost to protect us from being in a bad position/situation with tenants and the law.

    As a ministry (or church) worker, I personally value the person more than just the services they provide. Although I can also understand the business and contractual side of things. Nonetheless, I believe working/professional relationships can have healthy boundaries so we can still minister to professionals serving us more than a mere transaction of payment and service. I understand this is my personal opinion/preference and Ryan probably hold a different view - a stricter professional view - in which case I can also respect and accept.

    thumb Stella Y.
    1/11/2018
  •   As most people know, selling a church property can be challenging, to say the least. I became Church Council President for Trinity Lutheran Church approximately a year and half ago and was greatly relieved that we were able to sell our property at the most opportune time. Ryan Bushore was extremely helpful as we (Church Council) navigated everything from the viewing of the property with potential buyers to all of the paperwork once the property was sold. He even assisted us with other issues we encountered along the way to ensure we had a smooth transition leading up to the closing down of our operation. We are extremely satisfied with the service he provided and the full attention that he gave us every step of the way.

    thumb Danielle R.
    8/05/2026