Cities · Florida
We buy houses for cash in Tampa — get your offer in 24 hours
Deep bench of cash buyers across the bay-area submarkets — particularly active on inherited and probate property.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes a fair cash offer on your Tampa 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 Tampa: what's different here
Tampa sits in Hillsborough County, FL.
Older Tampa neighborhoods like Seminole Heights carry 1920s bungalow stock that renovators compete hard for, while suburban Hillsborough is largely concrete-block ranch houses.
Roof age drives insurability in Florida, so a house with an aging roof often sells more smoothly for cash than through a financed retail buyer whose insurer balks.
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.
Situations we handle in Tampa
Property types we buy in Tampa
Tampa sellers — common questions
Ready to see what your Tampa 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.