You can have a real number, with the arithmetic shown, in about a day. No fee, no listing, no obligation, and if we think you should keep the royalty we will tell you that instead.
Send us a royalty check stub, a division order, or just the county and your name. We tell you what you own, what we will pay, and exactly how we got to the number. Berlin Royalties is the trade name of Berlin Resources LLC. We buy for our own account, we take title in the county records, and we have been doing it out of Tulsa since 2014.
Worth pinning down first, because the word royalty gets used for four different things and they are not worth the same.
If you are not sure which you have, that is normal and we will work it out for you at no charge. Most owners find out from a check stub.
An offer on a producing royalty is almost always built as a multiple of recent monthly income. A buyer takes what you have received over the last three to twelve months, adjusts for anything unusual, and applies a multiple.
That multiple is a payback period wearing a disguise. A 48 month multiple means the buyer expects to get their money back in about four years and to own the stream forever after that. Whether that is a fair trade depends entirely on three things:
Ask any buyer for those three numbers. A buyer who did the work answers in a paragraph. Our offer checker will turn any specific offer into the payback period it implies and tell you what the buyer must be assuming to justify it. Deeper detail on method is on how much mineral rights are worth.
| Step | What happens | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| 1. You send what you have | A check stub, a division order, a deed, or just a county and a name. Nothing formal. | Minutes |
| 2. We look it up | We pull the wells, the production, the operator, and run the title far enough to know what you own. | Usually one business day |
| 3. You get a number with the reasoning | Which wells, what decline, what deck, what we think the undrilled side is worth, and what we will pay. | Same day as step 2 |
| 4. You decide, on your own clock | No deadline. Take it to another buyer if you want, and we will tell you if theirs is better. | Yours |
| 5. Purchase agreement | Plain language. You should read it, and you should be able to. | A day or two |
| 6. Title and closing | We do the title work and pay the costs. A clean interest closes quickly. Probate gaps and old severances take longer. | Two to four weeks, typically |
| 7. Funds | Wire or check, your choice, and the deed records. | At closing |
Anyone promising to close a mineral sale in 48 hours is either skipping the title work or was never going to close at all. Title is the part that takes time, and it is the part that protects both of us.
With a direct buyer, nothing. We pay for the title work, the deed preparation, the recording fees and the closing. There is no commission, because we are not a broker and nobody is being paid out of your proceeds.
That is not true of every route. A broker takes a commission. A marketplace takes a listing fee, a commission, or both. Those routes can still be worth it when competition raises your price by more than the cost, which is a real thing on a large clean producing interest. It is usually not true on a small or complicated one. We lay out the tradeoff honestly on broker or direct and compare your selling options.
Less than people expect. Any one of these is enough to start:
If the minerals are still in a deceased relative's name, that is extremely common and it is fixable. See selling before probate is finished and transferring inherited minerals. If you cannot find anything at all, start with how to find out what you own.
The single most useful thing most royalty owners do not know. Selling a fraction and retaining the remainder is an ordinary transaction, not a favor. It is frequently the right answer when you need a specific amount of money and have no view on where prices go, because it takes the timing question off the table completely.
If a buyer will only take all of it, that is a fact about that buyer, not about your options.
A royalty sale is generally a capital gain, and if you inherited the interest your basis is usually stepped up to value at the date of death, which can reduce the gain substantially. Ordinary royalty income is taxed differently from a sale. We are not tax advisors and you should use one, but we will give your CPA whatever numbers they need. Start at taxes when you sell minerals and 1031 exchanges.
We would rather say this before you send us anything than after.
The longer version is at when not to sell. It is on our own website, arguing against our own interest, on purpose.
Current drilling activity, the operators actually running wells, what the state's royalty payment law already guarantees you, and where we buy.
What the wells are, what your decimal implies, what the stream is worth and how we got there, and what we will pay. Free, no obligation, and we will say plainly if we think holding beats selling.
Get a Free Valuation Ask a LandmanBerlin Royalties is the trade name of Berlin Resources LLC, a mineral buyer and a landman shop in Tulsa, not a law firm or a tax advisor. We are a potential counterparty to any sale you make, which is exactly why we would rather you checked our arithmetic than took our word for it.