Riverside bungalows, Westside block ranches, Arlington three-bedrooms, Neptune Beach cottages. Wherever your house sits in Duval County, we'll walk it, put a written cash offer in your hands within 24 hours, and close on the date you choose.
No repairs, no cleaning, no commissions. We pay standard closing costs.
Yes. Northeast Florida Home Buyers buys houses for cash anywhere in Duval County, Florida: every Jacksonville neighborhood plus the separate cities of Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Baldwin. We buy as-is in any condition, including inherited homes in probate, rentals with tenants, and houses with code violations or flood damage. You get a written offer within 24 hours of our walkthrough and can close in as little as 7 days.
Jacksonville covers more land than any other city in the contiguous U.S., and a 1925 Avondale bungalow has almost nothing in common with a 1962 Arlington ranch. Pick your part of Duval to see what we typically buy there and what sellers in that area are usually dealing with.
The neighborhoods ringing downtown hold Jacksonville's oldest housing, much of it built in the boom after the Great Fire of 1901. Owners here often love the house and hate what it would take to make it sellable.
1910s–1940s frame bungalows, Prairie-style and brick foursquares, Springfield Victorians, and duplexes carved from single-family homes. Expect original knob-and-tube or early wiring, cast-iron drains, pier foundations and old-growth oaks lifting sidewalks and sewer lines.
Inherited homes held in one family for decades, half-finished renovations, and exterior work inside the Riverside-Avondale and Springfield historic districts, where changes need a Certificate of Appropriateness. We buy without you applying for any of it.
Zip codes: 32202, 32204, 32205, 32206, 32207
The Westside grew around NAS Jacksonville and the old Cecil Field, so its housing tells a mid-century military story. Out past Whitehouse, Baldwin and Maxville turn rural fast, with acreage and homes on well and septic.
1950s–1970s concrete block ranches with jalousie windows, carports and terrazzo floors under the carpet, plus larger-lot homes and manufactured homes on land toward Baldwin. Original electrical panels and cast-iron plumbing are common.
PCS orders on short notice, landlords ready to exit a long-held rental, original 1960s systems that a buyer's inspector will flag, and pockets still on septic. Ortega's riverfront streets add flood-zone insurance to the conversation.
Zip codes: 32210, 32212, 32220, 32221, 32222, 32244, 32254, 32234
The Northside runs from established neighborhoods near the Trout and Ribault rivers out to marsh-edge communities and newer subdivisions around Oceanway and New Berlin, near the port and the airport.
Older frame and block homes near the rivers, mid-century houses in Highlands and Brentwood, vacant properties that have sat for years, and newer-construction homes in Oceanway where owners need speed rather than a rescue.
Water intrusion and flood history near the Trout and Ribault rivers, open code-enforcement cases on vacant houses, and tax or utility balances that have quietly piled up. These are title problems, not deal-breakers. They're settled from the proceeds at closing.
Zip codes: 32208, 32209, 32218, 32219, 32226
Arlington became Jacksonville's first big suburb after the Mathews Bridge opened in 1953. The Southside filled in decades later with planned subdivisions, condos and townhomes along the Baymeadows and Deerwood corridors.
1950s–1960s Arlington ranches on big lots, Fort Caroline homes near the river, and 1980s–2000s Southside houses, townhomes and condos. Many still have original roofs, original HVAC ductwork or 1990s polybutylene plumbing.
HOA and condo special assessments, divorce settlements that need a clean, fast split, job relocations out of the Southside office corridor, and landlords holding rentals that no longer cash-flow after insurance increases.
Zip codes: 32211, 32216, 32224, 32225, 32246, 32256, 32277
Along the east bank of the St. Johns River, Mandarin and San Jose mix oak-canopy residential streets with riverfront lots. Many owners bought decades ago and are now downsizing or settling an estate.
1960s–1990s ranch and two-story homes, larger-lot properties under heavy tree cover, and older riverfront houses where the dock, seawall or bulkhead needs work that can run into five figures on its own.
Downsizing after the kids are gone, estates where heirs live out of state, roofs past the age Florida insurers want to renew, and riverfront repairs nobody wants to take on before a sale.
Zip codes: 32217, 32223, 32257, 32258
Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach are their own cities with their own building departments, even though they sit inside Duval County. Mayport, home to Naval Station Mayport, stays part of Jacksonville.
Older beach cottages, 1960s block homes a few streets off the ocean, duplexes and small multifamily, and condos. Salt air is hard on roofs, windows, HVAC condensers and stucco, and wind and flood insurance costs climb the closer you get to A1A.
PCS orders out of Mayport, owners leaving short-term rental, storm and water damage, and open permits with a beach city's building department. We check those records before we write the offer, not after.
Zip codes: 32227, 32233, 32250, 32266
Most Jacksonville listings that fall apart don't fail on price. They fail on one of these four things, usually after weeks of showings and an accepted contract.
Riverside-Avondale and Springfield are locally designated historic districts. Exterior changes, from windows to roofing material to demolition, need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. Renovating buyers know this and price it in, or walk.
For your sale: designation limits what can be changed, not your right to sell. We buy as-is and handle any approvals ourselves after closing.
The St. Johns River and its tributaries, including the Ortega, Arlington, Trout and Ribault rivers, put a lot of Duval homes in FEMA flood zones where lenders require flood insurance. Hurricane Irma's 2017 river surge flooded streets in San Marco, Riverside and Ortega that had never flooded before.
For your sale: no lender means no flood-insurance requirement for the buyer. We check your zone and elevation before the offer so it doesn't change later.
Once a roof passes 15 years, Florida insurers can require an inspection before writing or renewing a policy, and they can decline coverage if it fails. A financed buyer can't close without insurance, so an older roof can stop a sale outright.
For your sale: we buy with cash, so the roof's age changes our repair estimate, not whether we can close.
Jacksonville's consolidated city-county government, formed in 1968, handles code enforcement and permitting across most of Duval through the Municipal Code Compliance Division and the Building Inspection Division. Fines, liens and unclosed permits on the property surface in the title search, often years after the work was done.
For your sale: most liens are paid from your proceeds at closing. We find them early, so the problems surface before the closing table instead of at it.
Here's how a typical Duval County cash sale runs from first call to closing. The title search is usually what sets the pace.
By phone or the form. We pull the property records, flood zone and permit history for that address before we ever call you back.
We come to the house, from Baldwin to the Beaches. If you're out of state, a family member, tenant or lockbox works fine.
You get the after-repair value, the Duval comps behind it, our repair estimate and our margin, line by line.
A Jacksonville title company checks the Duval County Official Records for mortgages, liens, judgments, code-enforcement fines and open permits, then lines up the payoffs.
Sign at the title office or with a mobile notary wherever you are. Funds go out by wire or cashier's check. Leave anything you don't want; we handle the cleanout.
Inherited homes are one of the most common sales we see in Jacksonville. Who signs the deed, and how soon you can sell, depends on which of these three paths the estate takes.
Where Duval probate happens: cases are filed with the Duval County Clerk of Courts at the Duval County Courthouse, 501 W. Adams Street, downtown Jacksonville, in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit. It doesn't matter where the heirs live. The case runs where the property and estate are.
This is general information, not legal advice. We're cash home buyers, not a law firm. Every estate is different, so confirm which path applies with a Florida probate attorney. We're glad to work alongside yours.
Pick a closing date that works around your report date. If you've already left, we can close remotely. Sign with a mobile notary at your new duty station.
Most Duval County cash sales close in 7 to 21 days. The title search through the Duval County Official Records sets the pace. A clean title can close in about a week, while open liens, code-enforcement fines or probate paperwork can add time. You can also choose a later date if you need it.
Yes. Historic designation controls exterior changes, which need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission. It doesn't restrict your right to sell. We buy historic-district homes as-is and handle any approvals ourselves after closing.
First, the estate goes through probate with the Duval County Clerk of Courts at the courthouse on W. Adams Street in downtown Jacksonville. Smaller estates may qualify for summary administration. Larger ones go through formal administration, where the court issues Letters of Administration to a personal representative who can sell. If the home was the owner's Florida homestead, it may pass directly to heirs, who then sign together. A Florida probate attorney can confirm which path applies.
Yes. Code-enforcement liens, fines and open permits show up in the title search and are usually paid from the sale proceeds at closing. We buy the house with the violations still open, so you don't have to fix them first. We identify them before we write the offer so the number doesn't change later.
Yes. These four are separate cities inside Duval County with their own building departments, which matters when there are open permits, but we buy in all of them the same way we buy in Jacksonville. That covers beach cottages and condos in Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach, and rural and acreage homes in Baldwin.
Yes. In Florida, an existing lease generally stays in effect when a property sells, so we take over the lease and the tenant relationship at closing. You don't need to give notice, wait out a lease or file an eviction before selling.
Either. You pick the closing date, so we can close before your report date. If you've already relocated, the title company can send closing documents to a mobile notary at your new duty station, and funds are wired to you.
Riverside or Regency, Oceanway or Atlantic Beach, the process is the same: one address, one walkthrough, and a written offer within 24 hours with every number shown.