Cities · Louisiana
We buy houses for cash in New Orleans — get your offer in 24 hours
Cash-buyer market shaped by historic stock and weather-driven repair cycles; cash buyers move quickly on damaged inventory.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your New Orleans 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 New Orleans: what's different here
New Orleans sits in Orleans Parish, LA.
Louisiana's parish system and civil-law framework (successions instead of probate, forced-heirship rules) make inherited-property sales here genuinely different — we work with succession attorneys routinely.
Elevation, flood history, and roof age drive both insurance and offers; raised houses and prior storm repairs are assessed on every deal.
How closings work in Louisiana
Louisiana is a civil-law state — closings are passed before a notary (commonly a closing attorney). Cash sales still close on a normal two-to-three-week timeline.
Seller taxes and fees in Louisiana
Louisiana has no state real-estate transfer tax (Orleans Parish charges its own documentary transaction fee).
If you're behind on the mortgage in Louisiana
Louisiana foreclosures run through the court, most commonly via executory process — faster than ordinary lawsuits but still a court-controlled timeline measured in months.
Situations we handle in New Orleans
inherited
in New Orleans
probate
in New Orleans
foreclosure
in New Orleans
divorce
in New Orleans
behind on payments
in New Orleans
tenant occupied
in New Orleans
vacant house
in New Orleans
damaged house
in New Orleans
job relocation
in New Orleans
medical bills
in New Orleans
downsizing retirement
in New Orleans
back taxes
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Property types we buy in New Orleans
New Orleans sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your New Orleans 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.