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What Is An Option To Purchase? An option to purchase agreement gives a home buyer the exclusive right to purchase a property within a specified time period and for a fixed or sometimes variable price. This, in turn, prevents sellers from providing other parties with offers or selling to them within this time period.

In some transactions, you will sign a sales agreement after exercising the OTP. This contract, too, is binding on both parties and there is usually no way to back out of it. If the seller backs out of the OTP or sales agreement, any option fee or deposit paid by you must be refunded.

An option to purchase agreement gives a home buyer the exclusive right to purchase a property within a specified time period and for a fixed or sometimes variable price. This, in turn, prevents sellers from providing other parties with offers or selling to them within this time period.

An option-to-purchase contract must conspicuously state the duration of the option period. There is no correct or preferred unit of time and option periods can range from months to years. Typically, however, in the residential context, option periods range from one-to-five years.

The difference between a lease option and a lease purchase agreement is that the lease option only obligates the seller to sell. A lease purchase agreement commits both parties to the sale barring breach of contract or the buyer's inability to secure a mortgage.

What is an "option to purchase" agreement? An option to purchase is an agreement that gives a potential buyer (?optionee?) the right, but not the obligation, to buy property in the future. The optionee must decide by a certain time whether to ?exercise? the option and thereafter by bound under the contract to purchase.