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We Buy Houses in Kingsport, TN

Q: Do you buy houses near Kingsport?

Yes. We also buy houses in Bluff City and Bristol, and in ZIP codes 37618 and 37620. If you're not sure, call us.

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

Prefer to talk it through? Call (984) 489-8269

Selling Your Kingsport House Fast for Cash in Plain Terms

Selling your Kingsport house starts with one phone call about its condition.

We buy houses all over Kingsport, on the Sullivan County and the Hawkins County side, and send a written cash offer within 24 hours, with no showings needed. There are no commissions, no repairs and no cleaning, and we pay the 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 Tennessee title or settlement company closes the sale, and you choose the 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 Kingsport

How a Cash Sale of Your Kingsport House Unfolds

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1. Describe It Over the Phone
Tell us about your Kingsport house as it is. You won’t repair or clean anything first.
2. Look Over the Written Number
You have a written cash offer within 24 hours, with no commissions and no showings.
3. The Title Company Wraps It Up
A Tennessee title or settlement company closes the sale on the date you pick.
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Older Kingsport Houses, Sold Without a Repair List

Kingsport was incorporated on March 2, 1917 ¹, and some of its neighborhoods date from the decades that followed. Yours may have original wiring, plaster walls, steel casement windows, a porch that sags or a roof near the end of its life. If it was built before 1978, federal law has the seller share what they know about lead-based paint, pass along any reports and give the buyer a lead hazard pamphlet ⁵. You can sell it with all of that still waiting.

Some of those houses sit in the city's historic districts. Kingsport's Historic Zoning Commission meets on the second Monday of each month at City Hall, takes applications by the 15th of the month before, and posts a map of all the historic districts ⁶. If you started, applied for or were turned down for exterior work, tell us on the call.

Illustrative scene: a white couple in their seventies looking up at a rotted porch column and sagging beam on the front porch of their 1940s brick cottage in Kingsport

Kingsport Owners: Weighing a Listing Against Cash

If your Kingsport house is ready to show and you're not in a hurry, an agent may get you a higher price than our cash offer. Along the way you'd pay the commission, cover what a buyer's inspection turns up, and keep paying the mortgage, insurance and utilities until closing. The Sullivan County listing figures show how long homes have been on the market.

Estimate what a listing would leave you with the Kingsport cost example, then hold our written offer beside it. If listing wins and the wait works, list.

On a $345,000 sale

Example, not a quote.

Listing with an agent

Sale price: $345,000
Agent commission (5.5% here; it varies): −$18,975
Repairs before listing (example): −$12,000
Seller's closing fee and deed preparation (example; companies vary): −$500
Three months of carrying costs (example): −$6,210
You'd walk away with: $307,315

Comparing a cash offer

In this example, listing would leave you about $307,315 before your mortgage payoff. Compare that with your cash offer, less any closing costs you'd still pay.

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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Sullivan County Listing Trends for Kingsport Owners, September 2026

Listing figures for Sullivan County, TN.

Sullivan County, TN housing market, September 2026
Median asking price	$347,003up 3% from a year earlier
Median days on market	59 daysabout the same as a year earlier
Homes for sale	570up 3% from a year earlier

Homes listed in Sullivan County, TN sat a median 59 days on the market in September 2026, about the same as a year earlier. The median asking price in Sullivan County, TN was $347,003 in September 2026, up 3% from a year earlier.

Kingsport ZIP Codes Turning Over Quickest

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

37664 — 55 days
37660 — 60 days
37663 — 62 days

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

One City, Two Counties: Selling a Kingsport House in Sullivan or Hawkins

Kingsport reaches across a county line. The state's municipal advisory service lists the city in both Hawkins and Sullivan counties ¹, and Hawkins County counts Kingsport among its incorporated places along with Church Hill, Mount Carmel, Rogersville, Surgoinsville and Bulls Gap ².

Which side a house is on decides which county offices handle its taxes and an owner's estate. On the Sullivan County side, the Chancery Court's Clerk and Master keeps a Kingsport office at 225 West Center Street, Room 104, 423-224-1726, besides its offices in Blountville and Bristol ³. The Hawkins County Clerk and Master is in Rogersville ⁴. Tell us which county is printed on your tax notice, and we'll plan the paperwork around the right offices.

What Is Your Kingsport House Worth to a Cash Buyer?

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When a Kingsport Sale Gets Complicated

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

Facing foreclosureThe notice can run as little as 20 days before the sale. Here are the rules.

A Tennessee foreclosure sale is advertised at least twice in a newspaper in the county where it will be held, the first time at least 20 days ahead, and posted online for 20 days in a row; a copy goes to you by registered or certified mail by the day of the first ad ⁷. Because Kingsport lies in both Sullivan and Hawkins counties ¹, check which county the notice names. The notice itself gives the time and place and identifies the property by street address and deed reference ⁸. If a date is set, have a Tennessee real estate attorney look at your options before you sign.

Inherited a houseWho inherits the house, which court handles the estate, and what a small estate covers.

On the Sullivan County side, estates go through the Chancery Court's Clerk and Master, whose main office is at 140 Blountville By-Pass, Room 201, in Blountville, 423-323-6483 ³. Its website posts the probate forms, from the oath and the notice to creditors to the inventory and accounting forms ⁹. In Tennessee a house usually passes at death to the heirs or the people a will names ¹⁰, so tell us whose name is on the deed and how far the estate has gotten.

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. Because a Tennessee sale notice can first appear just 20 days ahead, that window is the time to call your servicer about options, or to sell before a notice ever goes out.

Going through a divorceHow Tennessee divides a house in a divorce, and why selling can make it simpler.

In a Tennessee divorce, the court divides the marital property equitably, without regard to who was at fault, in the proportions it finds just ¹². A house is often the biggest piece. Selling it 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. Bring the lease and the deposit records to the call.

The tenant doesn't have to move out before we make an offer. Tennessee's landlord-tenant act applies in counties with more than 75,000 people at the 2010 census ¹³. Under it, either side can end a month-to-month tenancy with written notice at least 30 days before the rent date ¹⁴, and security deposits are kept in an account used only for that purpose ¹⁵. Tell us about the lease, the rent and the deposit on the call.

Moving away or downsizingLine the sale up with your move, and ask about state property tax relief at your next home.

The sale can line up with your move. If you're 65 or older and buying another Tennessee home, the state's tax relief program may pay back part or all of the property tax on your primary residence, within income limits. It isn't an exemption: you still pay the bill, and you apply through the county trustee ¹⁶.

Kingsport Neighborhoods, Downtown to Colonial Heights

We buy houses all across Kingsport, on either side of the county line, and in the communities around it. If your neighborhood isn't listed, call anyway.

Downtown and Broad Street

Downtown
Broad Street area
Church Circle area
Watauga Street area

Along the Holston River

Riverview
Boatyard area
Netherland Inn Road area

Lynn Garden and Bloomingdale

Lynn Garden
Bloomingdale
Stone Drive area

Fort Henry Drive and Colonial Heights

Colonial Heights
Fort Henry Drive area
Rock Springs
Indian Springs

ZIP Codes Across Kingsport

37660
37663
37664
37665

Kingsport Sellers Ask Us

What's the soonest a Kingsport closing could happen?

As soon as 14 days after you accept our written offer, once the title company has done its work and your loan payoff is in hand. A lender has seven business days to send a payoff statement after a written request ¹⁷. An estate, a tenant or your own moving plans can make a later date the better choice.

How do you work out a cash price for a Kingsport house?

From what you tell us on the phone: its age, the roof, wiring, plumbing and porch, any water in the basement, the repairs you've put off and who's living there. If a figure in the written offer doesn't make sense to you, ask us to explain it.

Selling my Kingsport house as-is, what do I still have to disclose?

Usually you'll fill out Tennessee's disclosure statement listing the material defects you know about; an as-is disclaimer is only allowed if the buyer waives that statement ¹⁸. Either way, a known sinkhole, an exterior injection well, soil or percolation test results, or a house moved onto a new foundation must be disclosed in writing ¹⁹.

When are Kingsport city and Sullivan County taxes due?

The City of Kingsport's taxes are due by November 30; a 2% penalty is added December 1, another 2% on January 1 and 1% each month after that. The City's Customer Service Center is at 415 Broad Street, 423-343-9860 ²⁰. Sullivan County's payment period runs from the first Monday in October through the end of February, and unpaid county taxes start drawing 1.5% interest a month on March 1. The Trustee's Kingsport office, at 225 West Center Street, is open from October 1 to March 13 ²¹.

I'm behind on Sullivan County taxes. Can I still sell before a tax sale?

You may be able to. The Clerk and Master generally holds one delinquent-tax sale a year, online through GovEase, and the taxpayer may pay what's owed up to the time of the sale. Sale information is usually posted about two months ahead, and the sales are advertised in the Kingsport Times News ²². Tell us the amount on the call.

My Kingsport house is on the Hawkins County side. Do I need a lawyer for the estate?

Yes, in Hawkins County. The Clerk and Master in Rogersville, 100 E. Main Street, Suite 316, (423) 272-8150, files probate matters, and the court's local rules require an attorney for them ⁴.

Why did Kingsport's property tax rate change in 2025?

Sullivan County reappraised property in 2025, its first since 2021, and nearly every residential property's value went up. The City's rate went from $1.99 in 2024 to $1.67 in 2025 ²⁰. The year's taxes are split between you and the buyer as of the closing date, and any back taxes are the seller's ²³.

Do you buy houses near Kingsport?

Yes. We also buy houses in Bluff City and Bristol ²⁴, and in ZIP codes 37618 and 37620. If you're not sure, call us.

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