Cities · Maryland
We buy houses for cash in Baltimore — get your offer in 24 hours
Deep cash-buyer bench, particularly on the row-home and inherited-estate inventory.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Baltimore house — usually within 24 hours, often the same day. You review it. You pick the closing date. You close, or you walk. No fees either way.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes cash offers directly to homeowners — no fees, no commissions, and no obligation to accept. We are not a real-estate agent or broker; we buy houses for cash.
Selling a house in Baltimore: what's different here
Baltimore sits in the independent City of Baltimore, MD (separate from Baltimore County).
Baltimore City and Baltimore County are separate jurisdictions with different taxes and processes — a constant surprise to out-of-town heirs, and something we sort out in title work.
The city's row-home stock varies sharply block by block, and ground rent — a Baltimore-specific quirk where the land under a house is leased — still attaches to many properties; we handle ground-rent redemption as part of closing.
How closings work in Maryland
Maryland closings run through title companies or attorneys; cash sales close on a normal two-to-three-week timeline.
Seller taxes and fees in Maryland
Maryland charges a 0.5% state transfer tax plus county transfer and recordation taxes that vary by county — Baltimore City levies its own. Combined seller-side cost varies, so we spell it out in the offer breakdown.
If you're behind on the mortgage in Maryland
Maryland foreclosures are court-supervised: the process files through the circuit court with mandated notice periods, so it moves faster than full-trial judicial states but slower than trustee-sale states — typically several months.
Situations we handle in Baltimore
Property types we buy in Baltimore
Baltimore sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Baltimore house is worth in cash?
Lockwood Home Buyers makes cash offers directly to homeowners — no fees, no commissions, and no obligation to accept. We are not a real-estate agent or broker; we buy houses for cash.