Cities · Illinois
We buy houses for cash in Chicago — get your offer in 24 hours
Huge metro with submarket-specific cash buyer activity — south-side, west-side, and Cook County suburbs each have distinct buyer pools.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Chicago 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 Chicago: what's different here
Chicago sits in Cook County, IL.
Cook County property taxes and the city's own transfer tax materially affect net proceeds, so we put the full math in front of you before you commit.
Chicago's brick two-flats and bungalows each have dedicated cash-buyer pools; south- and west-side values run block by block, and we price at that granularity.
How closings work in Illinois
Illinois closings run through title companies, with attorneys customarily involved in the Chicago area. Cash closings in two to three weeks are routine.
Seller taxes and fees in Illinois
Illinois charges $0.50 per $500 at the state level plus $0.25 per $500 to the county; Chicago layers on its own city transfer tax. The seller share depends on where the property sits.
If you're behind on the mortgage in Illinois
Illinois is a judicial state — foreclosure runs through the court with statutory redemption periods, and Cook County cases in particular commonly take a year or more. Long runway, but the payoff keeps growing.
Situations we handle in Chicago
Property types we buy in Chicago
Chicago sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Chicago 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.