We buy houses in South Philadelphia
South Philadelphia is the biggest single gap between where deals actually happen and where most cash buyers bother to look.
- A written cash offer, usually within one business day
- No commission and no repairs — we buy it as it stands
- Liens, back taxes, tenants and probate are all workable
- You pick the settlement date
Get your South Philadelphia cash offer
Two minutes. No fee, no obligation.
What the housing stock is
Brick rowhomes on narrow blocks, and a lot of them. Girard Estates has larger twins with setbacks; Whitman and Packer Park feel almost suburban and come with parking; Point Breeze and the blocks around Graduate Hospital have been rebuilt hard over the last fifteen years; and further east you still find trinities — the tiny three-story, one-room-per-floor houses that are among the oldest occupied buildings in the city.
Parking is not a detail here. A block with a garage or a legal curb cut prices differently from the identical house two streets away without one.
Why the number is hard to get right
The gentrified edge and the untouched blocks are sometimes on the same street. A renovated house on a Point Breeze corner and a never-touched family home three doors down are not the same asset, and a buyer pricing off a neighborhood average will be wrong in one direction or the other. We pull the actual settled sales around your specific block.
What we see most in South Philadelphia
- Houses held by the same family for forty or fifty years, now being settled by adult children
- Trinities and small rows that no longer meet what a modern buyer expects
- Estates where several siblings each want something different
- Shallow basements, old knob-and-tube, and heaters at the end of their life
- Small rentals a landlord is finished with
If your South Philadelphia house is renovated and you are not in a hurry, list it — this is one of the stronger retail markets in the city and we will say so. Where we are the better answer is the house nobody has updated since the seventies, or the one tied up in an estate.
How selling to us works
Tell us about the house
Two minutes on the form or one phone call. Address, rough condition, and what is going on. You do not need to have anything cleaned up or figured out first.
We check the numbers
We pull the comparable sales, the tax and lien position, and whatever else is on record for the property. Usually same day, always within one business day.
You get a real cash offer
A written, no-obligation number with the math behind it, so you can see how we got there. No fee to hear it and no pressure to take it.
You pick the closing date
Two weeks, two months, or after the holidays. We settle at a title company, you get certified funds, and you leave whatever you do not want behind.
Situations we handle in South Philadelphia
None of these are unusual to us. Most of the houses we buy come with at least one.
Facing foreclosure
Stop the clock. We can close before the sheriff sale date and settle what you owe.
See how this works →Inherited a property
A house you did not ask for, in a city you may not live in. We handle it end to end.
See how this works →Administering an estate
Executor duties, probate, and a house to deal with while you are still grieving.
See how this works →Liens, judgments & title problems
Tax liens, water bills, old mortgages, clouded title. We own a title company.
See how this works →House needs work
Roof, water damage, full gut, hoarder cleanout. We buy it exactly as it stands.
See how this works →Problem tenants
Not paying, will not leave, trashing the place. Sell it with them still in it.
See how this works →Squatters
Someone is living in your property who has no right to be. We deal with it.
See how this works →Moving to senior care
Free up the equity to pay for care, on a timeline that fits the move-in date.
See how this works →Out-of-state owner
You do not have to fly in. Everything can be handled remotely and notarized where you are.
See how this works →Relocating for work
A start date in another state and a house that has not sold yet.
See how this works →South Philadelphia questions
How fast can you close on a house in South Philadelphia?
Usually the offer comes back the same day or the next business day, and most purchases settle in under 30 days. It can be as quick as about a week. It runs longer when there is something to untangle first — an estate that has not been opened, a large payoff, or a title defect. We tell you which one you are in before you commit to anything.
What gets paid off at settlement on a South Philadelphia property?
In South Philadelphia the usual ones are delinquent City of Philadelphia real estate tax, unpaid water and sewer, and open Licenses & Inspections violations. Judgments and old unreleased mortgages turn up regularly too. All of them are recorded against the parcel and all of them are paid or resolved at settlement out of the sale proceeds — you do not normally bring money to the table. Our own title company, Prosperity Abstract, does that work rather than sending it out.
Do I need an inspection or repairs to sell in South Philadelphia?
No. The City of Philadelphia does not require a municipal resale inspection to transfer a property, and we do not ask for a buyer's inspection contingency in South Philadelphia or anywhere else. We buy the house in the condition it is in.
Nearby
We buy across the city and the surrounding counties. These are the closest markets to South Philadelphia.
Port Richmond
Tidy, tightly held rowhomes, long-tenured owners, and a lot of houses moving between generations.
See how we buy in Port Richmond →West Philadelphia
Porch-front rows and large Victorians, with values that swing hard from one block to the next.
See how we buy in West Philadelphia →Southwest Philadelphia
Elmwood and Kingsessing rowhomes, water in the basements, and a lot of tired small-landlord stock.
See how we buy in Southwest Philadelphia →Find out what your South Philadelphia house is worth in cash
It takes about two minutes to ask and there is no fee for the answer. If a cash sale is not your best move, we will say so.