The statutory window
7 calendar days after the later of receiving the public report or signing the purchase contract. The same statute also reaches certain add-ons made the day of a sales presentation or within seven days after it.
When the clock starts. The later of receipt of the public report or execution of the purchase contract.
How notice is treated. The right is described as making the contract voidable by the purchaser, without penalty, inside that window.
Checked 2026-10-26 against Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 11238. Statutes are amended. Your contract can give you longer than the statute. Confirm both before you rely on a date.
Owners often sign in California while traveling, or they live in California and hold an interest somewhere else. Bring the contract either way.
What to do if the purchase is recent
- Find the cancellation address in the contract. Do not use the sales desk’s verbal instructions as a substitute.
- Send a short writing that says you cancel, names the contract, and is signed. Keep a copy.
- Use the delivery method the contract, or the statute, treats as effective. Certified mail is often safer than a regular email even when email is allowed.
- Do not sign a waiver of your cancellation right while the window might still be open.
- Do not stop there if a closing already happened. Some statutes treat an early closing as voidable for much longer, and that question belongs with a lawyer.
If you have owned it for years
This statute will not unwind an old purchase. The later path is the contract you have now: maintenance, any loan, the term, and whether the developer offers a real release. That review is the contract-cancellation service, not this page.