Sell a Fixer-Upper in Pompano Beach, FL

The permit card is still taped to the front window. The kitchen is down to the studs, the bathroom has new rough-in and no fixtures, and the material prices that made sense in the spring do not make sense now. Or nothing was ever started: you bought a 1974 block house in Kendall Green planning to renovate, or inherited a parent's untouched home in Leisureville, and the list of what it needs has only grown. A fixer-upper in Pompano Beach is a house whose owner knows exactly what it needs and has decided not to do it. In a city with about seven months of supply, an unfinished house draws the lowest offers from buyers who then cannot get a loan on it.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys fixer-uppers from their owners across Pompano Beach and North Broward, finished, unfinished or never started, with a written offer within 24 hours of the visit and a closing on your date. This page is for the owner who wants to sell. It explains how we price a house by what it will become, what happens to half-done work and open permits, why insurance and lenders make these houses hard to sell the ordinary way, and how an inherited project house sells through the estate.

Our number starts with what the renovated house would sell for on your street, based on finished sales near you rather than the citywide median of around $385,000, which mixes beach-side and mainland homes. From that we subtract the realistic cost to complete the work, the cost of owning the house while it is done, the cost of reselling it, and a margin. The result is the written offer, and we show the arithmetic. Work you already finished reduces the remaining scope, so it shows in the number. The offer is below what the finished house would list for; the honest comparison is against your net after finishing the work yourself, paying a commission, and carrying the house through the marketing time.

A project that stopped is not a problem for the sale. A permit with the city's building department that is open, expired or never finaled must be closed, extended or reissued before the work can be completed, and we take over that status as the new owner after closing. You do not need to finish anything or pass an inspection before selling. Leave the materials you bought; they are priced as part of the house. If the earlier work was done without a permit and Code Compliance has opened a case, Fla. Stat. 162.06(5) requires you to disclose the case to the buyer in writing, give us the notices and notify the code officer within 5 days of transfer. We prepare that paperwork, and the case follows the house to us.

A financed buyer needs the house to appraise, to meet the lender's habitability requirements, and to be insurable. A house without a kitchen, with a roof half re-decked or a panel a carrier will not accept, fails all three. Under Fla. Stat. 627.7011 an insurer may require an inspection of any roof 15 years or older, and Citizens, the state insurer of last resort, still held about 42,500 personal residential policies in Broward County on August 31, 2026, at an approved 2026 average premium of $2,916. The realistic market for a fixer-upper is cash, and the question is which cash buyer prices the work honestly and does not reopen the price at closing.

The median house and condo in the city dates to 1974. A fixer-upper of that era can carry cast-iron drain lines, an original or 1980s electrical panel, a flat or low-slope roof section, single-pane windows and the patched ceiling from a leak that started in Hurricane Wilma in October 2005 or Hurricane Irma in September 2017. The city reports over 32 percent of its buildings sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, and new tidal flood maps took effect July 31, 2024. Since October 1, 2024, a seller must give a flood disclosure form at or before contract covering past flood claims, federal flood assistance and current flood coverage. You fill in what you know; the roof, the drains and the flood history are priced in the written offer, not argued about later.

Some project houses were never anyone's project. They aged while their owner did, and the children who inherited them live in Coral Springs, Ohio or overseas. If the house was in the parent's name alone, the deed cannot move until the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit's probate division in Fort Lauderdale acts. The personal representative, the person the court appoints to act for the estate, can sign once the court's authority is in place; estates of $150,000 or less excluding the protected homestead, for deaths on or after July 1, 2026, or any death more than two years ago, may qualify for the shorter summary administration. Ask the estate's attorney before spending estate money on renovation. We contract with the estate now and close when the court's order exists.

Send the address, what has been done, what remains and the status of any permit. We visit, deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and open title when you accept. A Broward County title company runs the search, orders any payoff and closes about a week after title is clear, or on a later date you choose. There is no inspection contingency, so the number in the offer is the number at closing. Pompano Beach Cash Buyers pays the customary closing costs and charges no commission; your net is the price minus your mortgage payoff and any liens. If the remaining work is small and you have the money and the months to finish and list, that may net more, and we will say so.

We buy houses in Pompano Beach for any reason, any condition, or any challenge

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