Sell My House Fast in Texas: We Buy Houses for Cash, As-Is, Any Condition

Most Eagle transactions close in roughly 21 to 42 days. Texas closings normally run through a title company rather than requiring an attorney, which helps, but the timeline still depends on title readiness, liens, mortgage payoffs, any association balances and the property review. Faster is sometimes possible when the title is clean. If you are facing a first Tuesday foreclosure sale, tell us the date early and we will say honestly whether it is realistic.

During business hours an initial no-obligation offer is often possible within minutes to a few hours once we have enough information about the property. Some houses need research, photographs or a walkthrough before we can put a number in writing. We would rather take an extra day and give you a figure we can actually perform on.

Less than most people expect. Texas uses power of sale rather than a court case, and the auction is held on the first Tuesday of a month at the county courthouse. Before it you get at least 20 days to cure and then at least 21 days' notice of the sale, and for most federally covered mortgages that sequence generally cannot start until the loan is more than 120 days delinquent. The laws section on this page has the detail. For your own dates, ask a Texas attorney.

Generally not after a mortgage or deed of trust foreclosure. Once the first Tuesday sale happens it is normally final, which is why everything useful happens before the auction. The exception is a property owners' association foreclosing over unpaid dues, where the owner generally has 180 days to redeem, and tax sales run on separate rules again. If you are not sure which kind of sale happened, establish that quickly with a Texas attorney.

Often not. An executor or administrator selling in the course of administering an estate is generally exempt from the Seller's Disclosure Notice, which makes sense because they frequently never lived in the house. Being exempt from the form is not a reason to stay quiet about a problem you know about. The laws section on this page lists the other exemptions, and whether yours applies is a question for a Texas attorney.

No, and it is written into the state constitution. An amendment added in November 2015 provides that after 1 January 2016 no law may be enacted imposing a transfer tax on a transaction conveying fee simple title to real property. On a house at the Texas median of $333,611, a 0.7 per cent transfer tax would be roughly $2,335. In Texas that line is zero. The constitution does expressly preserve a tax on the issuance of title insurance, so the title policy premium still applies, and county recording fees still apply, so closing is not free.

The industry rule of thumb is 70% of the after-repair value, minus the cost of repairs. On a house worth $300,000 fixed up and needing $40,000 of work, that is 70% of $300,000, which is $210,000, minus $40,000, giving $170,000. The 30% is not all profit: it covers the agent commissions and closing costs on the eventual resale, the carrying costs while the work happens, which in Texas includes a high property tax bill, the risk that the repair estimate is wrong, the risk that the after-repair value is wrong, and profit. The percentage moves up on newer houses needing light work and down on foundation problems, fire damage or thin rural markets. We will show you our own numbers if you want them.

You can transfer it, but a $1 price does not make it a sale in the eyes of the IRS, which generally treats a transfer well below market value as a gift of the difference. Four things usually matter more than the deed. A federal gift tax return is generally required for the difference, even where no tax is owed. Your child normally takes on your original cost basis rather than a stepped-up one, which can mean a large capital gains bill when they later sell, whereas inheriting it usually steps the basis up. Any mortgage does not disappear and most deeds of trust contain a due-on-sale clause. And if long-term care is a possibility, a gift can affect Medicaid eligibility for years. Speak to a Texas attorney and an accountant before signing a deed. We are neither.

Usually yes, and these are among the most common reasons Texas sellers call us. Foundation movement on the clay soils around Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, hail damage to roofs across North and Central Texas, and flood history in the Houston region can all make a house effectively unfinanceable, because a buyer's lender needs an insurer and an appraiser to sign off. That is precisely the gap a cash purchase fills. Tell us early and honestly, because it affects the number and we would rather price it correctly than restructure the deal later.

It is a slower market than it was, and we would rather say so. In August 2026 the Texas median sale price was $333,611, down 1.3% on the year, homes took a median of 68 days to sell, there were about six months of supply and 23% of listings took a price cut. We are not going to predict what happens next, because nobody knows. What we will say is that the usual argument for waiting assumes prices rise while you wait, and that assumption is not currently supported by the data here. Weigh it against what the house costs you to hold, which in a high property tax state is a real monthly number.

Yes. A lease generally survives a sale, so the tenancy comes with the house. Texas has a very large investor-owned housing stock and a lot of it is being sold at once as rents flattened while property tax and insurance rose, so this is familiar ground for us. Tell us what leases are in place, what the rents are and whether anyone is behind, so the figure we quote is one we can perform on.

Eagle pays the closing costs, except your share of any transfer tax, and there is no agent commission on a direct sale to us. You do not pay us a fee. What still comes from your side of the settlement is your mortgage payoff and prorated property taxes, along with anything else attached to the title such as delinquent property taxes, association dues, judgment liens, mechanic's liens or probate expenses. Texas charges no transfer tax, but the title insurance premium and county recording fees still apply. On a sale to Eagle, we pay both. Those are seller obligations rather than closing costs, and they are not interchangeable. The title work and the written agreement set out exactly what applies.

Not necessarily. Eagle may purchase the property itself or, if the purchase agreement permits, assign its contractual rights to another investor or purchasing entity. The written agreement explains the rights and obligations that apply. What matters is that the structure is disclosed to you, the agreed terms are honored and the buyer is positioned to actually perform.

The purchase agreement specifies the contingencies and cancellation terms, and we keep our contracts straightforward. If your situation changes before closing, talk to us directly. We would rather work through it than hold someone to a deal that no longer makes sense for them.