Cities · Texas
We buy houses for cash in Houston — get your offer in 24 hours
A sprawling, fast-growing metro where cash buyers actively buy across hundreds of distinct submarkets, from inner-loop tear-downs to outlying suburbs.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Houston 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 Houston: what's different here
Houston sits in Harris County, TX.
Houston proper has no conventional zoning, so streets mix eras and uses block by block — value is driven by deed restrictions and micro-location more than almost anywhere else in the country.
The region's expansive clay soils make foundation movement one of the most common condition issues on older Houston houses; we price slab repair routinely and it is not a deal-breaker.
Flood history matters here: buyers check flood zones and prior claims on every deal, so being upfront about past water intrusion speeds the offer rather than hurting it.
How closings work in Texas
Texas closings run through a title company. Cash closings are routinely done in about two weeks when title is clean.
Seller taxes and fees in Texas
Texas has no state real-estate transfer tax, so there is no seller-side deed stamp eating into your proceeds.
If you're behind on the mortgage in Texas
Texas is a non-judicial, deed-of-trust state and runs one of the fastest foreclosure timelines in the country: trustee sales happen on the first Tuesday of the month, with roughly 21 days’ posted notice. If you have a sale date, the window to close a sale before it is measured in weeks, not months.
Situations we handle in Houston
Property types we buy in Houston
Houston sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Houston 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.