Local cash buyers · Austin, TX

We Buy Houses in Austin, TX — Any Condition, Fair Cash Offer

Sell your house fast in Austin without repairs, fees, or months of showings. Get a no-obligation cash offer within 24 hours and close in as little as 7 days.

  • No fees or commissions
  • No repairs — sell as-is
  • You pick the closing date
  • Local Austin buyers

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Single-story brick ranch house with a live oak tree in an Austin neighborhood
any condition, any story
Two local home buyers and a homeowner walking up to an older Austin house with a For Sale As-Is sign in the overgrown front yard
one walkthrough, that's it
Homeowner holding a cash check in front of his sold as-is house, standing with the two local buyers
paid at closing, on your date
Restored white bungalow with a new porch, fresh flower beds, and a stone walkway
what a tired house can become

Photos are for illustration only and do not depict actual transactions or clients.

Selling Your Austin House to Us: Three Steps

No listings, no lockboxes, no strangers walking through your house every weekend. Just three steps between you and a check.

1

Tell us about the house

Fill out the short form. Address, phone, name — that's it. No documents, no photos required to start.

2

Get your cash offer

We research the property, ask a few questions, and make a fair, no-obligation cash offer, usually within 24 hours. One quick walkthrough. No open houses.

3

Close on your schedule

Pick your closing date — as fast as 7 days or months out if you need time. A local Austin title company handles the paperwork and you get your money at closing.

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Cash Offer vs. Listing With an Agent

Two real paths, honestly compared: a firm written number on your date, or the open market's process. Which one fits depends on your house and your timeline.

Typical listing figures are general market averages; every sale is different.
Selling to usListing with an agent
Commissions & feesNone — we pay standard closing costsRoughly 5–6% commission plus seller closing costs
Repairs & cleaningNone — leave what you don't wantRepairs, staging, and cleaning usually expected
ShowingsOne walkthrough with usOpen houses and repeated showings
Time to closeAs fast as 7 days — you pick the dateCommonly 60–90 days including time on market
CertaintyCash — no financing fall-throughBuyer loans can be denied at the last minute
The numberA firm written offer that doesn't changeDepends on appraisal, inspection, and negotiation

Why Sell to We Buy Houses In Austin TX?

We're a small, local team of home buyers — not a national franchise, not an iBuyer algorithm, and not agents fishing for a listing. When you call, you talk to the person who will actually buy your house.

We buy all over Austin: East Austin, Del Valle, Dove Springs, Riverside, Montopolis, St. Johns, Windsor Park, North Lamar. We buy in Round Rock, Pflugerville, and the rest of Central Texas too. Older homes, rentals with tenants, fire damage, foundation problems, houses packed to the ceiling with belongings: we've bought them all.

Every offer is free, and there's no obligation. If listing with an agent is the better move for you, we'll tell you that too.

Homeowner and two buyers reviewing closing paperwork at a title company conference table
the closing-table part

Who Sells a House This Way, and Why

Nobody plans to sell their house to a cash buyer. People call us because something changed, and the normal way of selling no longer fits. Across the Austin metro, the same few situations account for most of the houses we buy:

  • The house needs more work than the owner can fund. Picture a 1980s house in Windsor Park or Round Rock. The roof, the HVAC system, and foundation piers all fail in the same year. Buyers with loans won't touch it, and the owner doesn't have $70,000 to make it presentable.
  • An inherited house nobody lives in. Taxes and insurance cost money every month. Heirs in three states are trying to decide, and forty years of belongings sit inside.
  • A landlord who's done. Tenants are behind on rent. The make-ready costs a semester of income. The tax bill has no homestead cap to soften it.
  • A hard deadline. A job that starts in another state in five weeks. A divorce decree that says the house gets sold. A foreclosure sale date on the first Tuesday of next month.

In each of these, time, certainty, and zero out-of-pocket cost matter more than running the longest possible process. That is exactly what this way of selling is built for.

What Your Austin House Is Worth to Us, and How We Get There

Our offers are not a percentage rule or a black box. Every one comes from the same four-line math, and we show you all four lines:

  1. After-repair value. This is what your house sells for fully updated. We base it on renovated homes nearby that actually closed in recent months. We give you the addresses so you can look them up.
  2. Minus the cost of repairs. What it truly costs to get there: roof, foundation, HVAC, kitchen, baths, flooring, paint. We use real contractor pricing, not internet estimates.
  3. Minus holding and resale costs. Taxes, insurance, utilities, and financing while we renovate. Plus the commission and closing costs we pay when we resell.
  4. Minus our margin. The profit that makes it worth buying a house nobody else would buy as it stands.

Here is a worked example. An East Austin house would bring $450,000 renovated but needs $80,000 of work. After holding costs, resale costs, and margin, the written offer lands in the low $310,000s. You'll see that same math on your own house. The number in the contract is the number funded at closing. We don't renegotiate after an inspection, because we already did our inspection before we made the offer.

Sometimes the math says listing with an agent would leave you with much more money. If you have the time and money to get there, we'll tell you that. About a third of the people who call us end up listing or keeping the house. We consider that a good outcome.

The Austin Market Context Behind Your Decision

Austin's housing market changed shape after 2022. Thousands of new apartment units were built across the metro. The supply of homes for sale recovered from the record lows of the pandemic years. The frantic multiple-offer scramble of 2021 is gone. Today, well-priced, move-in-ready homes still sell, and everything else negotiates. That shift matters if your house needs work. Buyers gained options, so far fewer of them will overlook a dated kitchen.

For real data instead of anyone's spin, go to the primary public sources. Texas A&M's Texas Real Estate Research Center is the largest publicly funded real estate research group in the country. It publishes Austin-area sales, inventory, and price data. The Texas Comptroller's property tax resources cover the tax side of holding a property. We'd rather point you at primary sources than ask you to trust a cash buyer's take on the market.

Costs You Don't Pay When You Sell to Us

The gap between a cash offer and a retail sale price is real. So is the gap between a sale price and what you actually keep. On a traditional Austin listing, the money that never reaches you usually includes:

  • Agent commissions, historically around five to six percent of the sale price, split between both sides. After the 2024 changes to how commissions are handled, they are now more openly negotiable.
  • Seller closing costs: title policy, escrow fees, recording, and prorated taxes.
  • Pre-listing repairs and cosmetics, plus the repair credits the buyer asks for after their inspection.
  • Carrying costs for every month the house sits: mortgage, taxes, insurance, utilities, lawn care.
  • The risk of a fall-through. Financed deals die at appraisal and underwriting, and each restart costs weeks.

We charge no commission and no fees, and we pay standard closing costs. Take the written offer, subtract your mortgage payoff and any liens or back taxes, and that's what you take home. So the fair comparison is never "offer versus list price." It's "offer versus what you'd keep after everything, months from now."

How to Tell a Legitimate Cash Buyer From a Predator

This industry has bad actors, and they target homeowners under pressure. The FTC lists the common patterns in its guidance on mortgage relief scams. The Texas Attorney General's consumer protection division takes complaints from Texans. Judge us, and everyone else, against these standards:

  • No upfront fees, ever. A real buyer never charges you to make an offer or to "stop" anything.
  • Closing at a licensed title company, never at a kitchen table with a notary someone brought along.
  • A written offer you can take to an attorney. If a buyer discourages legal review, that tells you all you need to know.
  • No pressure to sign today. Our offers stay open while you compare them. A deadline measured in hours is a red flag.
  • Straight answers about assignment. Ask whether the buyer plans to close themselves or resell the contract to someone else. We buy directly.
  • Never sign over the deed in exchange for a promise to rent the house back or buy it back later.

Travis · Williamson · Hays

Areas We Serve Around Austin

We buy houses across the Austin metro. If your property is anywhere near one of these cities, we want to make you an offer.

Questions Austin Sellers Ask Us

Is selling a house for cash a good idea?

It depends on what you need. A cash sale gives up the chance at a top market price. In return, it gives you three things the market cannot promise: a firm written number, a closing date you control, and zero out-of-pocket costs. That means no repairs, no commissions, and no carrying a listing for months. For a house that needs work, an estate, a rental with tenants, or a hard deadline, that trade usually wins.

If your house shows well and you have a few months, listing it is often the better move. We will tell you so on the first call. Roughly a third of the people who contact us end up listing or keeping the house.

How fast can you actually buy my house in Austin?

Seven days on a clean title. There is no lender, no appraisal, and no loan underwriting in the way. Most sellers pick a date two to four weeks out. If you need to close months from now, maybe when your next home is ready, that works too. We write that date into the contract and show up on it.

Do you really charge no fees or commissions?

Really. We're the buyer, not an agent, so there is no commission. We also pay standard closing costs. You walk away with the written offer minus your mortgage payoff and anything else owed on the property. Things like back taxes settle at the title company.

How do you decide what my house is worth?

The same way any careful buyer would. We look at what comparable renovated houses near yours actually sold for. Then we subtract the cost of the work yours needs. Both numbers go in the written offer, with the comp addresses and the repair estimate by category. So you can check our math instead of taking our word for it. If we got a repair figure wrong, tell us and we'll rework it.

What kinds of houses do you buy?

Almost anything residential in Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties. That includes single-family houses, duplexes through fourplexes, condos, mobile homes with land, and some vacant lots. Condition doesn't matter. Foundation movement, old roofs, fire damage, houses that need major repairs, rentals with tenants in place, and inherited houses full of belongings are most of what we buy.

Is it a good time to sell a house in Austin?

Austin's market has more homes for sale and calmer pricing than the 2021 frenzy. Well-presented homes still sell, and everything else is open to negotiation. For real numbers instead of a sales pitch, Texas A&M's Texas Real Estate Research Center publishes Austin-area sales and inventory data monthly.

For a cash sale, timing matters less. We buy year-round, and our offer is driven by your specific house and comps, not the season.

Can I sell my house if I still owe money on it?

Yes, most sellers do. The title company asks your lender for an exact payoff amount. It pays the loan from the sale proceeds at closing, and you keep the difference. This works even if you're behind on payments, because past-due amounts are included in the payoff figure. If you owe more than the house is worth, we'll tell you honestly and point you toward better options.

Do I need a real estate agent to sell to you?

No. Selling directly to a buyer is a normal, legal transaction. It closes at a licensed Texas title company, same as any other sale. That said, you're welcome to have an agent or attorney review our offer. We encourage it, and the offer stays open while you do.

What paperwork do I need to get started?

None to get an offer. The address and a phone call are enough, and we pull county records ourselves. For closing, the title company handles the paperwork and will tell you exactly what to bring, usually just your ID. If the house is an estate or has title wrinkles, they'll flag what's needed early, not the week of closing.

Will anyone pressure me after I ask for an offer?

No. You get the written offer and one follow-up call to answer questions. That's it. No drip campaign, no repeated calls, and your information is never sold to other investors. We don't do cold calls, mailers, or bandit signs to anyone. You found us because you searched, and that's the only way we work.

What's the difference between you and an iBuyer like Opendoor?

iBuyers price with computer models, charge service fees around five percent or more, and mostly want newer homes in good condition. We're local people who walk the actual house and charge no fees. We buy the properties their models reject, the ones with foundation quirks, tenants, or forty years of belongings. See exactly how our process works.

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How we work

You Found Us. We Didn't Chase You.

Our whole sales process is no-pressure by design: you get a written offer with the math attached, it stays open while you think, and there's no obligation at any point. One follow-up call, then we leave you alone.

We also don't do outbound marketing — none of it. No bandit signs stapled to utility poles, no cold calls interrupting your dinner, no stream of letters filling your mailbox asking to buy your house. If you've been getting those, they aren't from us. We put our effort into being easy to find in search results, plus a few Google ads, so we're here at the moment you decide it's time — and invisible until then.

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