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We Buy Houses in St. Petersburg, FL

Sell your house fast for cash, as-is. A written offer within 24 hours of one call, and you pick the closing date.

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Sell Your House Fast for Cash in St. Petersburg, FL

We buy houses in St.

Petersburg and across Pinellas County for cash. One call about your home's condition gets you a written offer within 24 hours. There are no commissions, repairs, cleaning or showings, and we pay standard closing costs. Your cash offer is based on what you tell us about the house. If your answers reflect its real condition, the price on the contract is the price at closing. A title company or closing attorney handles the paperwork, and you pick the closing date, in as little as 14 days.

At a glance

No repairs or cleaning
No commissions or showings
We pay standard closing costs
Close in as little as 14 days

Selling in St. Petersburg

How to Sell Your St. Petersburg House for Cash

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1. Call and Tell Us About It
Describe your St. Petersburg house on one call, storm repairs and all. Nothing to clean or fix first.
2. Your Written Offer
A written cash offer reaches you within 24 hours. No commissions and no showings.
3. Set the Closing Date
A title company or closing attorney handles the paperwork on the day you choose.
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Sell Your St. Petersburg House As-Is: Helene, Milton and the 49% Rule

St. Petersburg took two storms in two weeks in 2024. Hurricane Helene pushed the water at the St. Petersburg tide station to 6.31 feet above the normal high-tide line ². Then Milton brought rain: a gauge near St. Petersburg recorded 20.40 inches, the storm's highest reported total, and its winds ripped the fabric roof off Tropicana Field ³. If either storm left damage behind, you can sell the house without fixing it. Tell us what happened.

St. Petersburg draws its repair line lower than most places. In the flood hazard area, if the cost of repairs reaches 49% of the building's pre-storm market value, the whole house has to meet current zoning, building and floodplain rules, which can mean raising it. The rule covers all repairs, even damage that didn't come from flooding ⁴. You can check whether your address is in the flood hazard area on FEMA's flood map site ⁴.

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Cash Offer or Listing With an Agent in St. Petersburg?

A St. Petersburg house in good repair can often fetch more on the open market than from a cash buyer, if you can wait. Waiting costs money: an agent's commission, the fixes a buyer's inspection turns up, and every month of mortgage, insurance and taxes until closing. The Pinellas County numbers after the example show how long listings are taking.

Work out what a listing would leave you after those costs, as the cost example for St. Petersburg does, and set our written offer against that figure, not against the asking price.

On a $415,000 sale

Example, not a quote.

Listing with an agent

Sale price: $415,000
Agent commission (5.5% here; it varies): −$22,825
Repairs before listing (example): −$12,000
Documentary stamp tax on the deed: −$2,905
Owner's title policy (state rate): −$2,150
Settlement and other closing fees (example): −$1,400
Three months of carrying costs (example): −$7,470
You'd walk away with: $366,250

Comparing a cash offer

In this example, listing would leave you about $366,250 before your mortgage payoff. Compare that with your cash offer, less any closing costs you'd still pay.

With our cash offer there's no agent's commission, and we pay standard closing costs.

Your numbers depend on your house, your loan and your county. Want your real numbers? Enter your address above or call (984) 489-8269.

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St. Petersburg Housing Market, September 2026

Listing figures for Pinellas County, FL.

Pinellas County, FL housing market, September 2026
Median asking price	$417,450down 4% from a year earlier
Median days on market	84 daysdown 3% from a year earlier
Homes for sale	6,523down 9% from a year earlier

Homes listed in Pinellas County, FL sat a median 84 days on the market in September 2026, down from 87 a year earlier. The median asking price in Pinellas County, FL was $417,450 in September 2026, down 4% from a year earlier.

Fastest-moving ZIP codes

Lowest median days on market among ZIP codes with 20 or more homes listed, September 2026.

33713 — 59 days
33710 — 60 days
33712 — 67 days
33705 — 71 days
33703 — 76 days

Source: Realtor.com Economic Research, September 2026. Asking prices of homes listed for sale, not sale prices.

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Selling a Florida House in a Hard Spot

If one of these sounds like your situation, here's what Florida law says about it, in plain terms. For advice on your situation, talk to a Florida attorney.

Facing foreclosureA lender has to go to court first. How the sale works, and how long you can still stop it.

Pinellas County foreclosure cases go to the Sixth Judicial Circuit, which covers Pasco and Pinellas counties ⁵. The Pinellas Clerk runs the sales online, through its Realforeclose auction website. Either side in a residential foreclosure can ask the court for mediation, and the Clerk points homeowners to Gulfcoast Legal Services, which offers foreclosure help to Pinellas residents ⁶. Florida law lets you stop the sale by paying the full judgment amount until the clerk files the certificate of sale, or a later time set in the judgment ⁷. If you hope to sell before the sale date, Florida's equity-purchaser law strictly limits deals on a home that's already in foreclosure ⁸. Show any contract to a real estate attorney before you sign it.

Inherited a houseWho handles the estate, and the shorter court process smaller estates may use.

Pinellas probate cases belong to the Sixth Judicial Circuit ⁵. Whoever has the original will must deposit it with the Clerk within ten days of learning of the death, and doesn't need an attorney to do it. Florida's probate rules require an attorney for many estate cases, though. The Clerk keeps probate records at the Clearwater Courthouse, 315 Court Street, and at a St. Petersburg branch, 545 First Avenue North ⁹. Summary administration is open to estates worth $150,000 or less, or when the owner died over two years ago ¹⁰. Tell us whose name is on the deed and where the case stands.

Behind on paymentsA servicer generally can't start foreclosure until you're more than 120 days behind.

Federal rules generally bar a mortgage servicer from starting foreclosure until you're more than 120 days behind ¹¹. That time can be used to call your servicer about options, or to sell before a case is ever filed.

Going through a divorceHow a court splits the house, and why selling can make it simpler.

In a Florida divorce, the court starts from the premise that marital property should be split equally, unless there's a reason for an unequal split ¹². Selling the house turns it into money that's simpler to divide. Your divorce attorneys can tell you what your order requires before either of you signs a contract.

Selling a rental with tenantsYour tenants don't have to move out first, and their deposits pass to the new owner.

The tenant doesn't have to move out before we make an offer. When a Florida rental is sold, the tenants' security deposits and advance rent go to the new owner, with an accounting for each tenant ¹³. If a tenant is month to month, either side can end the tenancy with written notice at least 30 days before the end of a monthly rent period ¹⁴. Tell us about the lease and the rent on the call.

Moving away or downsizingLine the sale up with your move, and you may keep part of your homestead tax savings.

The sale can line up with your move. If you had a Florida homestead exemption in any of the past three years and set up a new Florida homestead, you can apply to carry part of your old assessment savings to the new home, up to $500,000 ¹⁵.

If the City Opened a Codes Case on Your St. Petersburg House

After Helene and Milton, the City of St. Petersburg opened codes cases on properties found damaged in its post-storm assessments, to check that repairs are permitted, inspected and closed out. The City says an active codes case is not the same as a violation, and that it does not prevent a sale or refinance as long as no violations, fines or liens have built up. Owners get a chance to fix a problem before any enforcement, and on average it takes four to six months before a lien could be placed for non-compliance ¹.

If your house has an open case, or repairs were made without a permit, tell us on the call. It's part of what the house is, and the closing agent will want to know about it too.

St. Petersburg Neighborhoods and ZIP Codes We Buy In

We buy houses all over St. Petersburg and the rest of Pinellas County, inland and on the water. If yours isn't named, call anyway.

Downtown and the Old North Side

Downtown
Old Northeast
Crescent Lake
Historic Kenwood
Roser Park
Uptown

Northeast and the Bayfront

Snell Isle
Shore Acres
Venetian Isles
Placido Bayou
Riviera Bay
Allendale

West St. Petersburg

Disston Heights
Azalea
Tyrone
Jungle Prada
Crossroads
Ponce de Leon

South St. Petersburg

Childs Park
Lakewood Estates
Bartlett Park
Pinellas Point
Greater Pinellas Point
Bahama Shores

Gateway and the North End

Gateway
Feather Sound area
Meadowlawn
Lealman area
Euclid-St. Paul

ZIP codes we buy in

33701
33702
33703
33704
33705
33706
33707
33708
33709
33710
33711
33712
33713
33714
33715
33716

St. Petersburg Cash Home Buyers: Common Questions

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How fast can you buy my house in St. Petersburg?

As soon as the paperwork allows, in as little as 14 days from the day you accept our written offer. The closing agent searches the title, and your lender has seven business days from a written request to send a payoff statement ¹⁶. Unclosed storm-repair permits, an estate or a tenant can take extra time. If you'd rather close months from now, that's fine too.

How do you decide your cash offer on a St. Petersburg house?

On a phone call, from your answers. We'll ask what year the house was built, whether Helene's surge or Milton's rain got inside, what was repaired and whether it was permitted, how old the roof and air conditioning are, and who lives there now. The offer stands on what you tell us, so include the problems you haven't gotten to. Ask us about anything in the written offer you'd like explained.

How much will a cash buyer pay for my St. Petersburg house?

It depends on the house and on what you tell us: the condition, the storm repairs still outstanding and anything else it needs. Our written offer gives you a number to hold up against what a listing would net after costs, using the cost example for St. Petersburg.

Will a cash offer be lower than listing my St. Petersburg house?

Probably, if your house is in good shape and you have months to wait; an agent may find a buyer who pays more. Measure the two by what you'd actually keep after the commission, repairs and carrying costs.

Do I have to disclose problems if I sell my St. Petersburg house as-is?

In most cases, yes. In Johnson v. Davis, the Florida Supreme Court held that a seller who knows of a hidden defect that materially affects the home's value has to tell a buyer who doesn't know about it ¹⁷. At or before signing, Florida also has you tell the buyer about flood damage, flood insurance claims and FEMA aid during your ownership ¹⁸. After 2024, that means saying whether Helene or Milton put water in the house.

I got a Substantial Damage letter from the City of St. Petersburg. What does it mean?

In March 2025 the City said it was mailing Substantial Damage letters, with all of them expected to arrive by April ¹⁹. The City has told owners that a permit is required to repair a home damaged in Helene or Milton, and that once repairs reach 49% of the building's pre-storm market value, the house must meet current codes, which can include elevating it or floodproofing ²⁰. The letter is about how the house may be repaired. Tell us about it and the damage, and ask a real estate attorney what it means for your sale.

Repairs on my St. Petersburg house were never permitted. Can I still sell it?

Usually, yes. Tell us what was done, by whom, and whether a permit was ever pulled. By March 2025, in its hurricane recovery, the City had issued more than 6,500 permits to residents ¹⁹, and an unpermitted job is something a buyer and the closing agent will want to know about.

Do you buy houses near St. Petersburg?

Yes. We also buy houses in Gulfport, South Pasadena, Kenneth City, Pinellas Park, St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island and Seminole ²¹, and in ZIP codes 33781, 33782, 33772, 33776 and 33777. If you're not sure, call us.

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