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We buy houses in Surprise, Arizona

Cash offer within 48 hours. No agent, no repairs, no commissions — anywhere in Surprise.

First 48 Offers buys houses for cash in Surprise, Maricopa County. Send us the address and you will have a written offer within 48 hours, with no obligation to take it and nothing to pay us at any stage.

A lot of Surprise property comes to us through estates from the active-adult communities. We handle out-of-state heirs and probate paperwork regularly.

Where we buy in Surprise

We buy throughout Surprise, including original Surprise, Marley Park, Sun City Grand and Asante. These are the zip codes we cover here:

  • 85374
  • 85378
  • 85379
  • 85387
  • 85388

If your zip is not on that list but the property is in or near Surprise, call us anyway — the answer is usually still yes.

What drives value in Surprise

Surprise has a heavy concentration of active-adult housing, which means estate sales are the dominant reason property changes hands here, often with heirs in another state.

What we buy here

  • Houses needing major repair — roof, foundation, plumbing, fire or water damage
  • Inherited property, including estates still working through probate
  • Homes with liens, back taxes or missed mortgage payments
  • Rentals with tenants still in place, paying or not
  • Vacant property that is costing you every month it sits
  • Houses that are perfectly fine, where you simply want a certain date

Back taxes and liens in Maricopa County

If unpaid property tax is part of why you are selling, it is worth understanding the clock. In Arizona the County Assessor sets a Full Cash Value for each parcel annually, and the County Treasurer bills it in two installments. When taxes go unpaid, the Maricopa County Treasurer can sell a tax lien against the property at auction, and those auctions are held in February each year.

A lien does not stop us buying. Back taxes are settled out of the proceeds at closing, through escrow, the same as a mortgage payoff. You do not need to clear them first — in fact you should not try to.

How it works in Surprise

You send the Surprise address. Within about 24 hours we come and walk the property with you — roughly twenty minutes, nothing cleaned or repaired first. By hour 48 you have a written offer showing what we would pay and which costs we cover.

If you accept, escrow can close in as little as seven days, or on a later date if you need time to move. We buy with our own cash, so there is no lender to fall through. Read the full process.

Surprise questions

I inherited a house in Surprise and live out of state. What now?

You do not need to fly out. We walk the property, send photos and video, and close remotely through an Arizona title company.

Does the house need clearing out first?

No. Leave everything. We handle clear-out ourselves and it does not change the offer.

More general answers are on our questions page.

Should you list instead?

Sometimes, honestly, yes. If your Surprise house is in good shape and you are not in a hurry, listing will usually net more. If it needs work, or you are on a deadline, or you cannot face showings, the maths often goes the other way once commissions and repairs come out. We set out both sides of that comparison.

Get our offer first either way — it is free, and it gives you a firm number to measure any listing estimate against. Note that once you sign a listing agreement we can no longer buy the house directly.

Talk to someone about your Surprise property

Call or text (480) 818-4105, Monday to Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, or send the address and we will do the research first.

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