Coverage
Where We Buy Houses
We are based in Bexar County and buy across the San Antonio metro, from inside Loop 410 out to the Hill Country and down the I-35 corridor. If your city is on this list, we will make you a cash offer on it.
- 25 cities with their own page, not one template
- 7 counties across the metro and Hill Country
- Written offer within 24 hours, wherever the house is
The San Antonio metro
One Metro, Four Very Different Housing Markets
People talk about San Antonio as a single market. For anyone selling a house it is really four, and which one you are in changes what a buyer will pay, how long a listing takes and what an inspection is likely to turn up.
The urban core and the enclave cities. Inside and around Loop 410, plus independent cities like Leon Valley, Windcrest and Universal City. Mostly built between the 1950s and 1980s on expansive clay soil, under mature trees. Well located, and now at the age where roofing, electrical panels and original drain lines are all due at once.
The growth corridors. The I-35 spine north through Schertz, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Kyle and Buda, and the outer Bexar suburbs. Overwhelmingly newer housing, almost all of it with a homeowners association and some of it with utility or improvement district assessments on top of ordinary property tax. Here your competition is often a builder rather than the house next door.
The Hill Country. North and west into Boerne, Bulverde, Spring Branch, Canyon Lake, Helotes and Kerrville. Limestone close to the surface, so anything involving excavation costs more. Septic systems and private wells are normal, lots are large, and appraisers regularly struggle to find comparable sales.
The rural counties. Floresville, Marion, Comfort, Elmendorf and the land around them. The houses are not the problem here, market depth is. The pool of buyers for a property needing real work can be close to empty, which is why those listings sit for seasons rather than weeks.
Each city page below is written from that starting point. It covers the parts of town we buy in, the kind of housing stock that is actually there, what moves that particular market, and where a normal listing would serve you better than we would.
Our busiest markets
Start With Your City
These are the areas we hear from most. Each page goes into the local detail rather than repeating the same paragraph with the name swapped out.
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We Buy Houses In San Antonio
A dozen housing markets under one name, from pre-war bungalows east of downtown to slab-on-grade subdivisions past 1604.
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We Buy Houses In New Braunfels
Two rivers, a tourism economy and a decade of very fast growth, all of which complicate a conventional sale.
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We Buy Houses In Schertz
A city spread across three counties next door to an Air Force base, and both facts change how a house here sells.
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We Buy Houses In San Marcos
A university rental belt and a river with a long memory. Student leases and flood history are what complicate a sale.
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We Buy Houses In Seguin
Some of the oldest housing stock in the region and a working industrial base, which together produce houses that are hard to list.
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We Buy Houses In Universal City
A town built around Randolph, with 1960s and 70s housing whose expensive components are all coming due at once.
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We Buy Houses In Converse
One of the fastest-growing corners of Bexar County, where a 1990s house competes with a builder two miles away.
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We Buy Houses In Canyon Lake
Unincorporated, largely on septic, and full of second homes. Every one of those complicates a financed sale.
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We Buy Houses In Kyle
Explosive growth on the I-35 corridor, and the utility and improvement districts that paid for it.
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We Buy Houses In Garden Ridge
Large lots on shallow limestone with septic systems and strict deed restrictions, all of which slow a conventional sale.
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We Buy Houses In Cibolo
Farmland to subdivisions in one generation, which means almost every house competes on being newer.
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We Buy Houses In Timberwood Park
Unincorporated north Bexar: bigger lots, septic systems, deed restrictions and no city permit record.
Why location matters
What Changes From One Market To The Next
These are the differences that actually decide whether a conventional sale closes on time, and they vary street to street across the metro.
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Clay Soil Or Limestone
Bexar County clay expands and contracts, which is behind most of the foundation movement we see closer in. Hill Country limestone does the opposite: stable, but shallow rock makes any excavation, for plumbing, a septic field or a repair, considerably more expensive.
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City Utilities Or Septic And A Well
A financed buyer on an on-site sewage facility usually faces a lender-ordered inspection and sometimes repairs before funding, and a private well can bring water testing too. On a cash purchase none of that is required, which is the single biggest practical difference in the rural counties.
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HOA, MUD And PID Layers
Most newer corridor housing sits in a subdivision with an association, and some sits in a utility or improvement district that adds assessments on top of property tax. The resale certificate required under Property Code Chapter 207 is the most common cause of a slipped closing date.
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Military Posting Cycles
Around Randolph and Fort Sam Houston, households move on orders rather than on the housing market. That means a lot of out-of-state landlords and a lot of deadlines that genuinely cannot move.
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Buyer Pool Depth
In San Antonio a house needing work attracts several renovation buyers. In a small town it may attract none. The house has not changed, the market has, and that is why the same property prices differently twenty miles out.
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Flood History And Insurance
Onion Creek, the Guadalupe, the Blanco and the San Antonio River all have real flood history. Texas sellers must disclose what they know, and a buyer who cannot obtain affordable coverage cannot get a mortgage approved, which is where these sales usually fail.
All 25 cities
Every City We Buy In, By County
Not sure whether you are inside our area? Send the address anyway. If it is outside what we cover we will say so straight away rather than passing your details on to someone else.
Bexar County
9 citiesSan Antonio itself, plus the enclave cities and the unincorporated north. Older housing on expansive clay soil, which is where most of the foundation and cast-iron drain work we see comes from.
Comal County
5 citiesThe fastest-growing part of the metro. New Braunfels and the I-35 corridor, then acreage, septic systems and lake property as you move toward the Guadalupe and Canyon Lake.
Guadalupe County
4 citiesThe tri-city corridor and Seguin. Heavily shaped by Randolph and Fort Sam Houston, so sales here follow posting cycles and employment rather than the housing market.
Hays County
3 citiesThe I-35 growth corridor toward Austin. Newer stock competing with builders, utility and improvement district assessments layered on top of property tax, and real flood history along Onion Creek and the Blanco.
Kendall County
2 citiesHill Country limestone. Boerne and Comfort have genuinely old building stock, and the acreage around them runs on septic systems and private wells.
Wilson County
1 cityRural south of the city, with a farming history and a small buyer pool. A house that needs work can wait a long time for the right purchaser here.
Kerr County
1 cityA retirement and regional medical center, which means an unusually high share of estate sales and houses that have been held for decades.
Towns We Cover Without A Dedicated Page
We also buy houses in St. Hedwig, Pleasanton, Alamo Heights, Fredericksburg, Balcones Heights, New Berlin, Uvalde, Santa Clara, Fair Oaks Ranch, Castle Hills, Kirby, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park, Hill Country Village, Grey Forest, China Grove, Sandy Oaks, Somerset, Von Ormy, La Vernia, Stockdale, Poth, Jourdanton, Lytle, Poteet, Hondo, Castroville, Devine, Natalia, LaCoste, McQueeney, Bandera and Lakehills. Those markets are inside our service area, they just do not have enough search demand behind them to justify a page of their own, and we would rather say that than pad the list out with pages that repeat each other.
Any situation
Whatever The Reason For Selling
The situation usually matters more than the house does, and it works the same way in every city on this page.
- Selling A House As-Is
- Facing Foreclosure
- Inherited A House
- House Needs Major Repairs
- Probate Property
- Selling Without A Realtor
- Fire-Damaged House
- Rental Property Or Problem Tenants
- Vacant Or Abandoned Property
- Relocating Or Job Transfer
- Divorce
- Code Violations
- Water Damage Or Mold
- Downsizing Or Retiring
- Bankruptcy
- Hoarder House Or Full Of Belongings
- Title Problems Or Liens
Questions
Questions About Our Service Area
Do You Buy Outside The Cities Listed Here?
Often, yes. The pages here are the markets with enough search demand to justify writing about in detail, not the boundary of what we buy. Send the address. If it is genuinely outside what we cover we will tell you straight away rather than passing your details to somebody else.
Why Do Some Cities Have A Page And Others Do Not?
Because we would rather write one useful page than thirty thin ones. Each city here got a page because there is real, measurable search demand for it and enough that is specific to that market to be worth saying. The other towns in our area are listed as coverage, which is honest, rather than padded out into pages that repeat each other.
Does Your Offer Change Depending On The City?
Yes, though less than people expect. What moves the number most is the condition of the house and what a future buyer in that specific market will pay. Location matters through that, rather than as a separate adjustment, which is why a small town with a thin buyer pool prices differently from a Bexar County suburb.
Do You Buy Land, Mobile Homes And Multi-Family As Well As Houses?
Usually. Land, manufactured homes and small multi-family all come with extra questions, particularly how a manufactured home is titled and whether it has been permanently affixed, but none of them is an automatic no. Tell us what it is and we will say quickly.
Can You Close Everywhere You Buy?
Yes. Closings run through a Texas title company wherever the property sits, which is what makes rural counties as workable as Bexar. Remote signing is routine, so you do not have to be in the state on the day.
Get A Cash Offer On Your House
A written offer within 24 hours. No obligation, and it does not matter which of these cities the house is in.