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- What do I have to disclose when selling a house in Iowa?
What Iowa Code chapter 558A requires in a seller disclosure statement, when it has to reach the buyer, which sales are exempt, the new lead service line question, and what happens if you deliver it late.
2026-11-15
- Do I pay capital gains tax when I sell my house in Iowa?
How the federal $250,000 and $500,000 home sale exclusion works, the two-out-of-five-year tests, what Iowa's flat 3.8 percent rate means for gain above the exclusion, and when the sale still has to be reported.
2026-11-12
- Iowa revenue stamps, from the statute rather than a rule of thumb
How Iowa Code 428A.1 computes the real estate transfer tax a seller pays at recording.
2026-10-11
- What the Des Moines proceeds ledger will not invent
Which lines start from the Polk County record, and which stay as inputs because no public file contains them.
2026-10-11