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We buy houses for cash in Fort Lauderdale — get your offer in 24 hours
South-Florida cash-buyer market with strong demand across price tiers; condo and townhouse offers are routine.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale: what's different here
Fort Lauderdale sits in Broward County, FL.
Broward's condo stock faces rising association fees and post-Surfside structural-reserve requirements, a common reason unit owners look for a cash exit.
On the single-family side, 1950s-1970s concrete-block ranches are the standard purchase, with roof age and insurance the main pricing inputs.
How closings work in Florida
Florida closings are typically handled by a title agent or closing attorney depending on the county; either way a cash sale commonly closes in two to three weeks.
Seller taxes and fees in Florida
Florida charges documentary stamp tax on the deed — $0.70 per $100 of the sale price in most counties (Miami-Dade uses a slightly different rate structure). It is customarily a seller-side cost.
If you're behind on the mortgage in Florida
Florida is a judicial-foreclosure state: the lender must sue and the case works through the court, which usually takes many months and sometimes years. That is more runway to sell than in trustee-sale states, but interest, fees, and legal costs keep accruing the whole time.
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Property types we buy in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Fort Lauderdale 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.