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B-200257 1 (1981-08-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjqv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AA THE COMPI~R LklRLGEERAL OECISIONOF THE UNITED STATES ~WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 ra~~ FILE: B-200257 DATE: August 18, 1981 MATTER OF: Philibert A. Ouellet--Relocation expenses - Closing costs paid by seller DIGEST: 1. Employee claims closing costs incident to purchase of new home. Agency questions claim since settlement sheet shows that closing costs were paid by seller. Closing costs paid by seller but included in sales price of residence may be allowed where they are clearly discernible and separable from price of realty, where both buyer and seller regard costs as having been paid by buyer, and where buyer docu- ments costs and his liability therefor. Since seller in this case declines to state that closing costs were paid by buyer, and buyer has presented no evidence to rebut that statement, the claim may not be allowed. 2. Agency asks whether rule of our decision Henry F. Holley, 56 Comp. Gen. 298 (1977), applies to homes purchased from private individuals in the resale market. Our decision in Holley allowed reimbursement of closing costs nominally paid for by the seller but, in actuality, added to the sales price of the realty and paid for by the buyer. Rule in Holley has been applied to transactions in the re- sale market to allow payment of such costs. See D. W. Holcombe, B-191235, October 25, 1978. The Deputy Regional Administrator, Region Three, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation requests our decision on whether closing costs that were apparently paid by the seller may be reimbursed to a transferred employee who purchased a residence at his new duty station, where the seller refused to provide a statement that the closing costs were included in the price of the residence. /4e- Ic r '7mf .Pe 19 '0

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