We Buy Houses in Houston, Texas

Maybe you inherited a house in Sunnyside that has been sitting empty since the estate settled. Maybe a rental in Aldine came back from tenants needing more work than it is worth, or the slab finally shifted enough that the doors will not close. Maybe it is simpler than that: a job is moving you out of Harris County, the mortgage is slipping behind, and you do not have the time or money to get a house ready for the open market.

Whatever brought you here, the problem is usually the same. A traditional Houston listing wants repairs, photos, showings, an option period, a buyer's lender, and an appraisal — months of steps, and any one of them can fall through. When the house needs work or the timeline is tight, that route can cost more than it returns.

A cash sale

Cash Home Advisors is a Texas cash home buyer that purchases houses across the state, including the Houston metro. We buy for cash, and the purchase does not depend on a bank loan.

We use the standard TREC contract — the same form Texas agents use — and close at a Texas title company. We can close in 7–14 days. We pay all closing costs, and you sell as-is, with no repairs.

Se habla español — every conversation, document walk-through, and closing question can happen in Spanish from start to finish.

Where we buy in Houston

We buy houses across the Houston metro, from the inner loop to the suburbs. That includes neighborhoods like Acres Homes (77091), Sunnyside (77051), Third Ward (77004), South Park (77033), the MacGregor and South Union area (77021), and South Acres (77048), along with northeast Houston near Lake Houston (77044) and west out toward Katy (77449).

Houston houses come with Houston problems. Slab movement in gumbo clay soil. Roofs and fences that have been through one storm season too many. Homes that took on water in a past flood and were never fully brought back. Older houses in Sunnyside or South Park that need updating from the studs out. Vacant properties carrying code liens or unpaid Harris County taxes. We price the repairs into the offer and buy the house as it stands.

If your situation involves probate, divorce, or a pending foreclosure, we will always suggest you talk with your own attorney or tax advisor about your specific circumstances. We are buyers, not lawyers, and we will not pretend otherwise.

The ten counties in the Houston metro

A house in the Houston area can sit in Harris County or in one of the nine other counties in the metro. The county, not the city in your mailing address, decides which appraisal district values the house, which tax office sends the bill and which county clerk holds the deed. Find the county printed on your appraisal notice first.

OMB Bulletin 23-01, issued July 21, 2023, names the Houston–Pasadena–The Woodlands metropolitan statistical area as Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto and Waller counties. Austin County on that list is not the city of Austin, which the Census Bureau's 2020 place-by-county file places in Bastrop, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties.

Cities near Houston and the counties they cross

The same Census file shows the city of Houston in Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Waller counties. For the cities around it:

• Pasadena, Deer Park and La Porte: Harris County.
• Baytown: Harris and Chambers counties.
• Pearland: Brazoria, Fort Bend and Harris counties.
• Missouri City: Fort Bend and Harris counties.
• Sugar Land: Fort Bend County.
• League City and Friendswood: Galveston and Harris counties.
• Conroe: Montgomery County.

If the house is in Katy, Spring, The Woodlands or anywhere else in the ten counties, tell us the street address and the county printed on your appraisal notice. Katy alone crosses Fort Bend, Harris and Waller counties on the Census file, so the county matters.

An appraisal district's boundaries are the county's boundaries under Tax Code Section 6.02. A Pearland house on the Brazoria County side is valued by the Brazoria County district.

Where the county records are kept

Texas sets up an appraisal district in each county (Tax Code Section 6.01). The Comptroller's county directory says appraisal districts answer questions about values, exemptions, protests and agricultural appraisal, while county tax assessor-collectors answer questions about tax bills, payment options and tax certificates. Deeds are recorded in the county where the land is located (Property Code Section 11.001), and the county clerk keeps an alphabetical list of recorded deeds by grantor and grantee under Local Government Code Section 193.003.

• Harris County: appraisal district at 13013 Northwest Frwy. and tax assessor-collector at 1001 Preston St., both in Houston.
• Fort Bend County: appraisal district in Rosenberg; tax assessor-collector in Richmond.
• Montgomery County: both offices in Conroe.
• Brazoria County: both offices in Angleton.
• Galveston County: appraisal district in Texas City; tax assessor-collector in Galveston.
• Chambers County: both offices in Anahuac.

Flood history belongs on the seller's disclosure

For a home with one dwelling unit, Property Code Section 5.008 prescribes a seller's disclosure notice. Its flood questions ask whether you carry flood insurance now; whether water has entered the house in a natural flood or from a reservoir release; whether the lot is in a 100-year or 500-year floodplain, a floodway, a flood pool or a reservoir; whether you have filed a flood claim with any insurer, including the National Flood Insurance Program; and whether you received FEMA or Small Business Administration help for flood damage. Answer from what you know. If you do not know an answer, the statute lets you mark it unknown. If a buyer signs a contract before getting the notice, the buyer may end the contract for any reason within seven days after receiving it.

The notice is not required for some transfers, including one by court order or at a foreclosure sale and one by a fiduciary administering a decedent's estate. Storm and fire repairs come up in selling a fire-damaged house and selling a house that needs repairs.

Foreclosure sales follow one state statute

If a lender has posted the house, Property Code Section 51.002 governs the sale in every one of the ten counties. The auction is held between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month, or on the first Wednesday when that Tuesday falls on January 1 or July 4, in the area the commissioners court designates at or near the courthouse. Notice must be posted at the courthouse door, filed with the county clerk and sent by certified mail at least 21 days before the sale, and the county must post filed notices on its website. For a home you live in, the servicer must first give you at least 20 days to cure the default. If a date is already set, read selling a house to stop a foreclosure.

Condos, rentals and acreage

The Texas Real Estate Commission's TREC No. 20-19 resale contract is marked not for condominium transactions, so a condo follows other paperwork; see selling a condo in Texas. A duplex or fourplex fits selling a small multifamily property. Land appraised under Subchapter D of Tax Code Chapter 23, the agricultural appraisal rules, can owe an additional tax for each of the three years before its use changes, under Section 23.55. Selling vacant land for cash covers that case.

What happens when you call

The first conversation is short. Tell us about the house — address, condition, what is going on — and we start pulling sales data for your part of Houston. We may ask to walk the property or look at photos. Then you get a cash offer. It is free, and there is no obligation.

If you have a Houston house you need to sell — inherited, storm-worn, tenant-damaged, or just unwanted — call Cash Home Advisors at (817) 520-8319 or email adrian@cashhomeadvisors.com. Tell us about the property, get a cash offer, and decide whether it works for you. En español o en inglés — whichever is more comfortable for you.

Storm or fire damage is on the fire-damage page. Land with no house on it is covered on the page about how to sell vacant land for cash. Ordinary repair questions are on the repairs page. The state index is the Texas hub.