(TMZ) The house where Michael Jackson died is in escrow and about to close ... TMZ has learned ... and the buyer was so anxious, he's moving in weeks before escrow is scheduled to close.The buyer is Steven Mayer, a investment banker. Our sources say the purchase price was somewhere between $17 and $20 mil -- it was listed for nearly $24 mil.
And this is interesting ... for some reason the seller is letting Mayer move in before escrow closes -- something real estate honchos think is high risk. more on this story