Sell your house fast in Texas
Lockwood Home Buyers buys houses for cash in 11 Texas cities. Pick yours below — or read more about the Texas-specific rules and quirks that affect a fast-sale closing.
Texas cities we cover
Arlington, TX
Mid-cities Tarrant submarket with consistent cash buyer activity across single-family and small-multi-family inventory.
Austin, TX
Higher-end pricing than most Texas metros means cash offers are more competitive on quality property; less so on heavy fixers.
Corpus Christi, TX
Gulf-coast market where cash buyers are active on both inland inventory and properties exposed to weather-cycle damage.
Dallas, TX
One of the most active cash-buyer markets in the country — a long list of cash buyers compete on speed and certainty of close.
El Paso, TX
Smaller pool of cash buyers than the I-35 corridor, but consistent activity at the mid and lower price bands.
Fort Worth, TX
Often treated as half of the DFW market, but Fort Worth cash buyers compete on their own and many specialize in west-Tarrant inventory.
Houston, TX
A sprawling, fast-growing metro where cash buyers actively buy across hundreds of distinct submarkets, from inner-loop tear-downs to outlying suburbs.
Irving, TX
Las-Colinas-anchored submarket where cash-buyer demand stays strong on both newer and older neighborhoods.
Lubbock, TX
West-Texas mid-size market with a steady core of local cash buyers on older single-family inventory.
Plano, TX
North-Dallas suburb with strong corporate-relocation seller flow and cash-buyer competition on most price tiers.
San Antonio, TX
Steady cash-buyer demand across a wide price band — strong fit for sellers wanting a quick out-of-listing close.
Selling a house in Texas: the rules that matter
Who runs the closing
Texas closings run through a title company. Cash closings are routinely done in about two weeks when title is clean.
Seller taxes and fees
Texas has no state real-estate transfer tax, so there is no seller-side deed stamp eating into your proceeds.
The foreclosure clock
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.