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We buy houses for cash in Des Moines — get your offer in 24 hours
Largest Iowa metro with a stable group of local cash buyers active across price tiers.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Des Moines 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 Des Moines: what's different here
Des Moines sits in Polk County, IA.
Insurance-industry employment anchors a stable market where cash offers track condition and rent math closely.
Iowa's abstract-and-attorney title system (no conventional title insurance) is unique, and we run that process routinely — it does not slow a cash sale much.
How closings work in Iowa
Iowa handles title differently from every other state: there is no conventional title insurance — title work runs on abstracts and attorney title opinions (with Iowa Title Guaranty available). It works fine for cash sales; it just means the title step involves an attorney.
Seller taxes and fees in Iowa
Iowa’s transfer tax is about $1.60 per $1,000 of the price (with the first $500 exempt) — modest, and paid by the seller.
If you're behind on the mortgage in Iowa
Iowa is a judicial-foreclosure state — the case runs through the district court, typically taking several months or more.
Situations we handle in Des Moines
inherited
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probate
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foreclosure
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divorce
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behind on payments
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tenant occupied
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vacant house
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damaged house
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job relocation
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medical bills
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downsizing retirement
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back taxes
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Property types we buy in Des Moines
Des Moines sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Des Moines 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.