We Buy Houses in Texas

The Two Texas Clocks Every Seller Should Know

The fast one, foreclosure. Texas's non-judicial process is the quickest in the nation: after a notice of default with its 20-day cure period, the sale needs only 21 days' notice for the next first-Tuesday auction. That's a legal minimum of about 41 days from default notice to the courthouse steps (Tex. Prop. Code 51.002), with no post-sale redemption for standard mortgages. Texas led the country in lender repossessions in early 2026, and Dallas and Houston posted some of the highest metro foreclosure-start counts anywhere (per ATTOM). If you're behind on a Texas mortgage, days matter in a way they don't elsewhere, start with the options guide today, because a two-to-three-week cash closing fits inside the Texas timeline only when it starts early.

The slow, grinding one, property taxes. Texas has no income tax and pays for it with property taxes among the nation's highest (~1.5% effective and over 2% combined in many cities). Every month you hold a house you don't want, the tax meter runs. At closing, the title company prorates and settles everything, including delinquent balances, which are among the most common problems we solve.

Texas Seller Quick Facts

Texas Rules That Work in Your Favor

No transfer tax at all

Texas charges no state or local real estate transfer tax; only flat county recording fees.

Title-company closings

Smooth, standardized escrow through title companies statewide.

The Seller's Disclosure Notice has generous exemptions

(Prop. Code 5.008(e)): estate executors and administrators, foreclosure-related transfers, co-owner and family transfers, and more. If you're a fiduciary or heir, your paperwork is lighter than a normal sale, though known defects should always be shared, which with us just makes the repair estimate accurate.

Probate is a Texas strength

Independent administration, minimal court supervision, handles ~80% of Texas estates, and muniment of title can transfer a house through a will in a matter of weeks when the estate has no unsecured debts. Few states move an inherited house to sellable status faster. See the inherited house guide.

Homestead protections are real

A $100,000 school-tax homestead exemption and a 10% annual appraisal cap soften the tax blow on your primary residence, but they don't follow you to inherited or investment property, which is exactly where the tax pain concentrates.

Situations We Handle Across Texas

• Pre-foreclosure sales: the defining Texas situation given the 41-day clock; Dallas and Houston post some of the nation's highest foreclosure-start counts, and early movers keep the equity.
• Inherited houses: muniment of title and independent administration make Texas estates the fastest to reach closing anywhere we buy.
• Tax-burdened property: the no-income-tax trade means holding costs bite hardest here; delinquent balances settle from proceeds at closing.
• Tenant-occupied rentals: leases and deposits transfer through the title company; Dallas's registration program hands off at closing.
• Storm- and flood-damaged houses: hail roofs in DFW, flood history in Houston; both are weekly underwriting for us, insurance-claim sequencing included.

What to Expect From Your Texas Offer

Every Texas offer itemizes the after-repair value from your neighborhood's comps, the repair estimate, and our margin, in writing. Your settlement side is as short as US real estate gets: payoffs, prorated property taxes, zero transfer tax, and the wire. We cover standard closing costs, title companies close statewide, and two to three weeks is typical once title clears, inside the foreclosure clock when the process starts promptly.

The Texas Market Right Now

DFW (8.5 million people, the nation's #1 numeric gainer and corporate-relocation champion) and Houston (7.9 million, the #1 single-year population gain in the country) anchor the state's growth; San Antonio adds steady military-and-medical demand at the most affordable big-metro prices in Texas. The 2026 picture is a normalization: Dallas County median ~$374K (down 2.9% YoY), Houston ~$340K (flat, on record-high inventory), San Antonio ~$265K (down 1.7%), per Redfin and HAR, mid-2026. Cooling list prices plus heavy inventory means retail buyers can skip imperfect houses entirely; direct sales exist for exactly those houses.

Where We Buy in Texas

• Dallas: Oak Cliff's bungalows to Pleasant Grove, plus the DFW suburbs
• Houston: Sharpstown's ranches, the Heights' bungalows, flood-history houses across Harris County
• San Antonio: East Side historics, Westside originals, military-timeline sales
• Fort Worth: Stop Six and Poly inheritances, Como originals, rentals under the city's inspection program, now Texas's 4th-largest city
• El Paso: Fort Bliss PCS timelines, Sunset Heights century homes, Lower Valley adobes with multigenerational title
• Killeen: Fort Cavazos moves and VA-loan accidental landlords in the state's softest market
• Statewide: Austin, Corpus Christi, Lubbock, the Valley, all 254 counties, any condition

One walkthrough, a written offer with the math shown, a title-company closing on your date: the same process everywhere. Texas's size means market conditions vary enormously between metros, so every offer is built from comps in your specific submarket. A cooling Dallas suburb and a steady San Antonio neighborhood get different numbers because they are different markets, and you'll see exactly which sales we used either way.

Compare Your Options in Texas

Want to see how we stack up before you call anyone? We ranked the companies that buy houses in Texas, including ourselves, with every company's publicly visible evidence shown so you can check our work. And before you sign anything with any buyer, our guide to selling a house in Texas walks through the state's disclosure rules, foreclosure timeline, taxes, and closing process in plain language. For the two situations we see most, our guides to selling an inherited house in Texas and the Texas foreclosure process go statute by statute, and selling a house in Houston covers the local rules in our biggest Texas market.

Want the raw numbers behind this market? Our Texas housing market analysis charts home prices, listing prices, and inventory across the last 16 quarters, with every source linked.