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We Buy Houses in Spokane, WA

Call about your Spokane house, however old it is, and a written cash offer follows within 24 hours. You choose the day escrow closes.

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How a Cash Sale of Your Spokane House Works

More than a quarter of the homes in the City of Spokane were built before 1940.

We buy old houses like these as they stand, and newer ones too, anywhere in Spokane County. Call us about yours and you'll have a written cash offer within 24 hours. There are no repairs, no cleaning, no showings and no commissions. 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. An escrow company closes the sale, and you pick the date.

At a glance

No repairs or cleaning
No commissions or showings
You pick the closing date

Spokane County Listings by the Numbers, September 2026

Listing figures for Spokane County, WA.

Spokane County, WA housing market, September 2026
Median asking price	$470,852down 6% from a year earlier
Median days on market	49 daysup 8% from a year earlier
Homes for sale	2,113up 7% from a year earlier

Homes listed in Spokane County, WA sat a median 49 days on the market in September 2026, up from 45 a year earlier. The median asking price in Spokane County, WA was $470,852 in September 2026, down 6% from a year earlier.

Spokane-Area ZIP Codes With the Shortest Listing Times

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

99212 — 36 days
99205 — 41 days
99206 — 41 days
99204 — 46 days
99217 — 46 days

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

Selling in Spokane

Three Steps to a Cash Sale in Spokane

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1. Tell Us About the Old House
Call about your Spokane house as it stands, drafty windows and all. You won’t repair or clean a thing first.
2. Look Over a Written Cash Offer
A written cash offer comes within 24 hours, with no commissions to pay and no showings to host.
3. Pick the Day, and Escrow Closes
A Washington escrow company handles the closing on the date you pick.
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Spokane County Property Tax: Two Due Dates and the Three-Year Line

The Spokane County Treasurer bills property tax in two halves. The first half is due by April 30 and the second by October 31. If the whole year's tax is under $50, all of it is due April 30, and a due date that lands on a weekend or county holiday moves to the next business day. If no statement has reached you by March 31, you can look it up online or ask the Treasurer for a copy at 509-477-4713 ¹.

A late half costs more each month. On a home of up to four units, the Treasurer charges interest of 0.75% a month, or 9% a year, on the tax owed, under rules the Legislature passed in 2021 and 2022 ². If any one year's tax goes three full years unpaid, the county starts foreclosure ³. So if a half is behind, say so on the call and bring the latest statement. It's better to sort out a back tax at your sale than at the county's.

Spokane's Older Houses: Wood Windows, Old Paint and Historic Districts

Spokane is a city of old houses. In the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 survey, 26.2% of the city's 102,834 homes were built in 1939 or earlier, and about 68% before 1980 ⁴. A house that age may well have single-pane wood windows, a worn porch and many coats of paint.

Paint matters most in a house built before 1978. Federal law asks you to tell a buyer what you know about lead-based paint, hand over any reports you have and give them a lead pamphlet ⁵. You don't have to scrape, test or repaint anything first. Tell us what you know on the call, peeling sashes and all.

Some Spokane houses sit in one of the city's seven local historic districts, such as Browne's Addition, Corbin Park, Comstock-Shadle or the Cannon Streetcar Suburb ⁶. There, exterior work that needs a building permit first needs a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Landmarks Commission or the Historic Preservation Officer. Normal maintenance or repair that leaves the outside looking the same needs no design review ⁷. Sell the house as it is, and that review is the next owner's job, not yours.

Illustrative scene: a white man in his seventies in a flannel jacket looking closely at an old single-pane wood window with peeling paint on the porch of his 1910s Spokane bungalow

Listing an Old Spokane House or Selling It As-Is

A Spokane house in good repair, listed with an agent and given time, may well sell for more than our cash offer. An older one is a different calculation. A buyer's inspector may write up the windows, the wiring or the foundation, and those repairs come out of your price or your pocket. Then there are the agent's commission and the months of mortgage, insurance, heat and another half-year tax bill while the sign is in the yard. The Spokane County figures above show what homes are asking and how long they wait.

Take the estimated listing net in the example below, priced at the county median, and set it beside our written offer. When the listing net is higher and a few months of waiting won't strain you, an agent is likely your better route.

On a $470,000 sale

Example, not a quote.

Listing with an agent

Sale price: $470,000
Agent commission (5.5% here; it varies): −$25,850
Repairs before listing (example): −$15,000
Real estate excise tax: state rate plus a 0.5% local rate: −$7,520
Owner's title policy and your share of escrow and recording fees (example; companies set their own rates): −$3,000
Three months of carrying costs (example): −$7,050
You'd walk away with: $411,580

Comparing a cash offer

In this example, listing would leave you about $411,580 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, your city or county and the escrow and title companies. Want your real numbers? Enter your address above or call (984) 489-8269.

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When a Spokane Sale Can't Wait

A Spokane sale rarely comes on its own. There may be a tax bill at the County Treasurer, an estate at the courthouse on Broadway, tenants, or a move to plan. Here is how each one goes in Spokane County. This is general information, not legal advice.

Facing foreclosureA trustee sells the house without a court case. Mediation can pause it.

In Spokane County, tax foreclosure starts when the Treasurer files a Certificate of Delinquency with Spokane County Superior Court, usually in June. The county then holds one online auction a year ⁸. The Treasurer's foreclosure line, 509-477-2073, has the date of the next one. To stop it, every year's tax, interest, penalties and costs must be paid before auction day ⁹. A lender's foreclosure is separate. It is a trustee's sale, and the Notice of Trustee Sale is filed with the Spokane County Auditor ⁹. This isn't legal advice; talk to a Washington attorney about your case.

Inherited a houseWho can sell a Washington house after the owner dies, with or without a will.

A Spokane County estate is filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Room 300 of the County Courthouse at 1116 W Broadway Avenue, open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Hearing information is at 509-477-2211 ¹⁰. When you call us, say who is handling the estate and how far the court case has gone. A Washington probate attorney can tell you who has to sign the deed.

Behind on paymentsYour lender has to write and call before a notice of default. Use that time.

Behind on the mortgage for your Spokane home? Before any notice of default, Washington law has your lender write to you, then try to reach you by phone at least three times, on different days and at different hours ¹¹. Use that window. The state's Foreclosure Fairness Program connects you with a housing counselor for free ¹². Then call us and say how many payments are behind.

Going through a divorceWashington is a community property state. Here is what that means for the house.

If you own the Spokane house with your spouse, both of you must sign to sell it while it is still community property ¹³. Once a decree is entered, it decides who keeps the house or how the money from a sale is split. Your attorneys can confirm what yours says. On the call, tell us whether the case is still open or the decree is final.

Selling a rental with tenantsYour tenants don't have to move out first. Bring the lease and the deposit records to the call.

Selling a Spokane rental doesn't mean ending the lease. Bring the lease, the rent and the deposit amounts to the call. When a tenant moves out, the law gives the landlord 30 days to return the deposit or to send a full written statement explaining what is kept ¹⁴. Write down each deposit before you sell, so nothing is in question later.

Moving to care or downsizingMoving into care or a smaller home? Here is what happens to your senior tax exemption.

Moving from a Spokane house into assisted living or a nursing home? If you have the state's senior exemption, the move by itself doesn't end it ¹⁵. If you deferred property tax through the state program, that amount comes back due when the house is sold ¹⁶. Ask the Spokane County Assessor about the exemption before you set the moving date.

Spokane Neighborhoods We Buy In, Hillyard to the South Hill

The City of Spokane has 29 neighborhood councils, grouped into three council districts: northeast, northwest and south Spokane ¹⁷. We buy houses in every one of them and across the rest of Spokane County. If your neighborhood isn't listed here, call anyway.

Northeast: Hillyard, Logan and Minnehaha

Hillyard
Logan
Minnehaha
Bemiss
Chief Garry Park
Nevada Heights
Whitman

Northwest: North Hill to Five Mile Prairie

North Hill
Audubon-Downriver
Emerson/Garfield
Northwest
North Indian Trail
Five Mile Prairie

The South Hill

Manito/Cannon Hill
Rockwood
Lincoln Heights
Comstock
Cliff/Cannon
Southgate

Around Downtown and the River

Browne's Addition
Peaceful Valley
West Central
East Central
Riverside
West Hills
Latah/Hangman

Spokane ZIP Codes We Cover

99204
99205
99206
99212
99217

Questions Spokane Homeowners Ask Us

My house is in Browne's Addition. Does the Landmarks Commission have to approve the sale?

Design review is about changes to a listed property: its use, its outside, new building or demolition ⁷. Selling the house as it stands changes none of those. We make our offer on the house with its windows, porch and paint as they are today. This isn't legal advice; the City's Historic Preservation Office can confirm what applies to your house.

I missed Spokane County's October 31 tax payment. Can I still sell the house?

Yes. Property tax is a lien on the house with the highest priority in Washington ⁸, so the escrow company pays what's owed, with its interest, out of the sale money before you're paid. Tell us on the call how much is behind.

My husband died a few weeks before the tax was due, and I paid late. Can the interest be waived?

It may be. State law gives two cases. If your spouse died, the waiver covers one missed payment on your own home. If your parent or stepparent died, it covers one missed payment on their home. Either way, you must tell the County Treasurer about the hardship within 60 days of the due date ¹⁸. The Treasurer also asks you to pay the tax within that time and send a copy of the death certificate ². Call the Treasurer at 509-477-4713 to ask.

A letter offers to help me claim money left over from a Spokane County tax sale. Should I pay for that help?

Read it carefully first. When a tax sale brings more than what was owed, the extra is held for whoever held title when the Treasurer filed the Certificate of Delinquency. The Treasurer's Office sends that owner a letter and an application, and the owner has three years to claim it ⁸. You can call the Treasurer's foreclosure line yourself at 509-477-2073 ⁹.

Mom's original will is still in her desk. Does the Spokane County Clerk need it?

Yes, before letters are issued. A probate case can be e-filed with a copy of the will, but the original has to be on file with the Clerk's Office first. A will filed on its own goes to the Clerk by U.S. mail, with a $20 filing fee ¹⁹. A Washington probate attorney can handle this for the family.

Do you buy houses near Spokane?

Yes. We also buy houses in Spokane Valley, Millwood, Airway Heights, Medical Lake, Cheney, Liberty Lake and Deer Park ²⁰. If you're not sure, call us.

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