Estoppel fee increasing to $500 from $150

[macman123]

Ive just had this email from the board sponsor.

I assume its in ADDITION to the $500 DVC Transfer fee, as the email says its for the estoppel.

Dear DVC Member:

We are contacting all potential sellers of their DVC contracts who have listed with us now, or made an inquiry about selling with us, regarding a Disney implemented increase in the cost to sell your DVC contract(s).

Disney administration has posted on DVCMember.com that effective January 1, 2026, the estoppel (transfer) fee for the resale of any Disney Vacation Club contract (deed) is being raised from $150 to $500. The fee, which entirely goes to Disney administration for the transfer of ownership, has changed over the 3 decades we've been helping Members sell their Disney Vacation Club contract(s) but never been quite so high.

We wanted to let you know as a professional courtesy to all our active and potential sellers/members of this new fee change.

*FOR OUR ACTIVE SELLERS THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL NOTICE OF COST INCREASE. If this additional $350 cost affects your desire to sell your contract, please contact DVC by Resale in writing with any updates or price adjustments on or before 12/31/2025.*

Again, if you have a contract listed for sale with us at DVC by Resale, your transfer fee paid to DVC administration at the time of closing will increase from $150 to $500 per contract, as detailed on DVCMember.com, effective for any contract signed on or after January 1, 2026.

We feel obligated to let you know that your broker, DVC by Resale, does not receive any portion of the fee. It all goes directly to Disney's administration department to process the ownership from seller to buyer and is separate from the closing costs a buyer pays to transfer the deed from your name to their name legally.
If you wish to discuss the fee, please contact Disney Vacation Club Administration through the regular Member Services number. 1-800-800-9800

 

[VGCgroupie]

Here you will find much talk about it https://www.disboards.com/threads/new-500-resale-dvc-transfer-fee.3975996/

 

[macman123]

Not the transfer fee, I know about this. But this email says an estoppel fee. Or has it been badly worded and they mean the contract transfer fee.......

 

[VGCgroupie]

Just realized you said in addition to the $500 fee.

I would post in this thread above what this email says, it will reach more people there

 

[VGCgroupie]

Not the transfer fee, I know about this. But this email says an estoppel fee. Or has it been badly worded and is the transfer fee.......

I think its badly worded but I could be wrong.

 

[Sandisw]

I got the email and reached out to them that this is not the information that I have been given.

The $500 fee is a closing cost for the buyer. The $150 estoppel fee is not changing for the seller.

We already know that DVC Resale Market has confirmed via communication with DVC that these are two different things.

They told me that they will be working to seek clarification with DVC given that info some of us owners have been told doesn’t match the contents of that email.

But yes, it appears their information is that the new $500 CAF…it is not a transfer fee…includes the $150 for estoppel.

Per DVC, at least when asked, these two things are not related.

 

[atthebeachclub]

I think the broker is conflating 2 different fees with each other. Doubt this was run by a lawyer.

 

[Chili327]

Not the transfer fee, I know about this. But this email says an estoppel fee. Or has it been badly worded and they mean the contract transfer fee.......

I think its badly worded but I could be wrong.

Can they possibly word it THAT bad?? lol

 

[Sandisw]

Can they possibly word it THAT bad?? lol

To be fair to them because I resonded to the email, it sounds like they are reporting what they got from DVC directly.

They assured me they will be seeking clarification since I shared that doesn’t match what others have been told and appreciated my feedback as someone who had discussed it directly with the board already.

 

[DanCali]

The $500 fee is a closing cost for the buyer. The $150 estoppel fee is not changing for the seller.

I don't think DVC officially charges "the buyer" per se.

The fact that brokers are saying "Buy Before January 1, 2026 to Avoid Disney’s New $500 DVC Resale Fee" still doesn't make it so...

Seems to me that it's just a $500 fee and they couldn't care less who pays it... Just like closing costs, it's negotiable at the time of sale.


https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/faq/reselling/information-required

 

[Sandisw]

I don't think DVC officially charges "the buyer" per se.

The fact that brokers are saying "Buy Before January 1, 2026 to Avoid Disney’s New $500 DVC Resale Fee" still doesn't make it so...

Seems to me that it's just a $500 fee and they couldn't care less who pays it... Just like closing costs, it's negotiable at the time of sale.


https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/faq/reselling/information-required


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It doesn’t say it is, there, but the information given is that it will be charged to the buyer as part of the closing costs.

Just like closing costs can be negotiated now, this will be as well…but outside of that, it will show up in the buyers side.

Estoppel will remain on the sellers side.

 

[gvel]

If there is really a extra $350 fee on the seller side this means that basically overnight DVC added an extra $850 ($350 extra stoppel +$500 CAF) to all resale closings .

 

[hardcorestitch]

Someone at Disney administration doing the Hurt Incantation, huh?

 

[Sandisw]

If there is really a extra $350 fee on the seller side this means that basically overnight DVC added an extra $850 ($350 extra stoppel +$500 CAF) to all resale closings .

No, it is not. The company has said that the info they received was $500 new CAF was a rise in the estoppel fee, which does not match what they said at the meeting.

They are in the process of getting DVC management to clarify. But, there is only a $500 CAF fee.

Estoppel will still be $150.

 

[Sandisw]

The correction email came today. Going to close the thread.