A house held in a trust can be sold, but the listing and closing depend on the acting trustee's authority. Checking the deed, trust provisions and required title-company documents early helps establish who can sign.
Who can sell trust property
Yes. A house held in a trust is sold by the trustee, in that capacity, and under Indiana's Trust Code the trustee has the power to do it unless the trust document says otherwise.
So the answer turns on the trust, not on the statute.
What the Trust Code actually gives the trustee
IC 30-4-3-3 lists the trustee's powers, and the subsection granting them opens with five words that decide this whole question: "Except as provided in the terms of the trust." Inside that opening, the power at (a)(1) includes the power to "buy, sell, or exchange and convey or transfer all property (real, personal, or mixed)" and to do it "for cash or on credit and at public or private sale with or without notice."
The same section carries the power to manage real property "in every way," which it spells out to include adjusting boundaries, erecting, altering or demolishing buildings, granting easements and rights-of-way, and partitioning. It carries the power to lease as lessor or lessee, and the power to "encumber, mortgage, pledge, or grant a security interest in trust property." Those acts may run "either within or extending beyond the term of the trust."
So the default in Indiana is a trustee who can sell. The reason to read the trust is that the trust is allowed to narrow that, and some of them do.
Who signs, and in what name
The trustee signs, as trustee. Not the beneficiaries, and not the person who created the trust if somebody else is now serving. If two people are named as cotrustees, the question of whether both signatures are required is a trust-document question, and it is worth answering before a listing goes live rather than on the day an offer comes in.
Nobody gets to read your trust
This is the part sellers are relieved to hear. IC 30-4-4-5 lets a trustee hand a person who is not a beneficiary a certification of trust "instead of a copy of the trust instrument." The certification covers the trust's existence and the date it was executed, who the settlor was, the acting trustee's identity and address, the trustee's powers, whether the trust is revocable, how cotrustees sign, how title to trust property is taken, and a statement that the trust has not been amended in a way that would make the certification incorrect.
A person who relies on it without knowing it is incorrect "is not liable to any person for acting in reliance on the certification of trust," and may assume the facts it states without further inquiry. A recipient is allowed to ask for excerpts that designate the trustee and grant the power to act in the pending transaction. Past that, the statute pushes back: a person who demands the full trust instrument anyway "is liable for damages if the court determines that a person did not act in good faith in demanding the trust instrument." The right to get the instrument in a judicial proceeding is untouched.
The thing to check before anything else
A trust only controls a house that was actually deeded into it. Having a trust and having the house in the trust are two separate events, and the second one is a recorded deed. Pull the current deed from the county recorder and read the name on it.
If the house is still titled in the owner's own name, the trust is not the document that governs the sale, and that is a conversation with the attorney who drafted it, not a problem to discover under contract.
Ask the trust's attorney about the trustee's sale authority, any cotrustee signatures, the deed and any conditions on a successor trustee. The CPA can assess basis, gain and the effect of the sale on the tax return.
If you are weighing whether to sell at all, the stay, change or move conversation is the right starting point, and how a listing runs covers the rest.
Sources, read at the Indiana Code on 2026-10-11: IC 30-4-3-3, trustee powers, formerly Acts 1971, P.L.416, SEC.4, as amended through P.L.50-2025, SEC.7; and IC 30-4-4-5, certification of trust, as added by P.L.238-2005, SEC.41 and amended by P.L.95-2007, SEC.18 and P.L.202-2007, SEC.5.
This note is general. It is not legal advice, and it is not a reading of your trust. What your trustee may do is decided by your trust document and by an attorney who has read it.