Can a cash buyer assign my contract to someone else in Colorado?
THE COLORADO FORM SAYS NOT ASSIGNABLE, UNLESS THE BUYER WROTE THE RIGHT BACK IN.
Only if the contract says so. The Commission's residential contract states it is not assignable by the buyer unless otherwise specified in Additional Provisions (Section 2.2, VERIFIED), so a wholesaler has to write the right in, and a seller can strike it. No Colorado statute or 2026 bill read here regulates wholesaling or requires an assignment fee to be disclosed. A licensed broker buying on their own account must disclose the license in writing (Rule 6.17(B), VERIFIED).SELLING · SHOWN
Default, exception, and the two questions a seller asks before allowing an assignment.
- 01DEFAULT
Not assignable
The contract is not assignable by the buyer unless otherwise specified in Additional Provisions (Section 2.2, VERIFIED).
- 02EXCEPTION
Written in, or struck
A buyer who wants to assign has to add the right in Additional Provisions. The seller can decline it or condition it.
- 03LAW
No wholesaling statute
No Colorado statute or 2026 bill read here regulates wholesaling or requires assignment fee disclosure; the principal exemption from licensing is what applies (C.R.S. 12-10-201(6)(b)(IV), VERIFIED).
- 04ASK
Who closes, and are you licensed
Ask who will actually appear at closing and whether the buyer holds a broker license; a licensed broker buying on their own account must disclose it in writing (Rule 6.17(B), VERIFIED).
What the form says.
The Commission's Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential) states in Section 2.2 that the contract is not assignable by the buyer unless otherwise specified in Additional Provisions (VERIFIED). That is the whole rule for most offers. If the buyer intends to assign the contract to another investor before closing, the offer will carry an added sentence granting that right, and the seller can accept it, strike it, or condition it on the original buyer staying liable.
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The practical reason to care is who closes. An assigned contract can close with a party the seller never met, on a timeline the seller never negotiated with that party. Section 4.4.3's funds representation and Section 4.3's earnest money were made by the original buyer; ask whether they follow the assignment.
What Colorado law does and does not say.
No Colorado statute read here regulates wholesaling, the assignment of purchase contracts, or the disclosure of an assignment fee to the seller. The two 2026 bills that touched real estate brokerage, HB26-1287 and HB26-1426, address trust accounts, affiliated business disclosures, supervision of confidential information and a broker's duty to advise a consumer to seek legal advice before signing a principal's own contract, and neither mentions assignment (VERIFIED from the bill pages and the enrolled act).
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What lets an unlicensed person buy and later assign or resell an interest is the exemption for a person acting on its own behalf as principal in acquiring or negotiating to acquire an interest in real estate (C.R.S. 12-10-201(6)(b)(IV), VERIFIED). A person who is really negotiating for others for compensation needs a license, and acting without one is a class 2 misdemeanor (PROBABLE, from a secondary source citing C.R.S. 12-10-223).
What a licensed buyer owes you.
If the buyer holds a Colorado broker license and is buying on their own account, Commission Rule 6.17(B) requires them to disclose in the contract or a separate concurrent writing that they are a licensed broker (VERIFIED). A cash offer from a licensee that does not say so is missing a required line.
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Two questions settle most of this: who will sign at closing, and are you licensed. Then the offer goes on the net sheet next to a listing, and any contract language with legal effect, including an assignment clause, goes to a real estate attorney before it is signed.
THE RECEIPT
Every number and every section, with its source.
VERIFIED means the text was fetched and read on the date shown. PROBABLE means a snippet or a secondary page carried it, and the primary text or an attorney confirms it.- SOURCE · VERIFIED
- Colorado Real Estate Commission, Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential), for use on or after January 1, 2026 (Section 2.2, assignability; Sections 4.3 and 4.4.3)
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- C.R.S. 12-10-201(6)(b)(IV), the principal exemption from broker licensing, FindLaw
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- 4 CCR 725-1, Chapter 6, Rule 6.17(B), a broker's own account disclosure, Cornell LII
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · VERIFIED
- HB26-1426, enrolled act (trust accounts, disclosures, advice to seek counsel; nothing on assignment)
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - SOURCE · PROBABLE
- A secondary summary of C.R.S. 12-10-223 penalties for unlicensed brokerage
Read 2026-09-24.
OPEN THE SOURCE ↗ - AS OF
- September 2026
- GEOGRAPHY
- Colorado
- DOES NOT PROVE
- Whether a specific buyer is a genuine principal or is brokering for compensation, or whether an assignment clause in your offer should be struck. Those are legal questions.
WHERE ROBERT STOPS
Whether a buyer is a principal or is brokering, and whether to strike an assignment clause, are questions for a real estate attorney. Robert prices the offer and asks who closes.
THE RECORD, PUBLICLY CHECKABLE
5.0 across 32 Zillow reviews · 54 recorded sales, 18 in the last twelve months.
Robert S. An, broker associate at Compass, Colorado license 100084328. Checked on the public Zillow profile September 24, 2026; a public profile changes, so read it yourself rather than taking this line for it. Those sales are residential, across the Denver metro.READ THE CLIENT ACCOUNTS WHOLE →THE NET SHEET, ON YOUR HOUSE
Send the address.
Send the address and the offer. The net sheet compares it to a listing, and the assignment line is flagged for the attorney before anything is signed.SEND ME THE ADDRESSPRICE IT
See what each way out leaves on this house.
OPEN THE NET SHEET →WHEN IT IS YOUR HOUSE