Metro Detroit's highest-value county, from Troy and Farmington Hills to Pontiac. We buy houses in 11 Oakland County cities for cash — as-is, no commissions, and you choose the closing date.
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We buy houses across Oakland County, from Pontiac out to the county line. This page covers what selling here involves at the county level — the probate court, the register of deeds, the tax foreclosure timeline, and the transfer tax — along with every Oakland County city we cover.
Oakland County has the strongest housing market of the three counties we buy in, with a typical home value well above both Wayne and Macomb and steady growth over the past five years. It runs from Troy and Farmington Hills at the top of the range through Royal Oak and Ferndale in the middle to Pontiac and Hazel Park at the more affordable end. Demand is consistent, comparable sales are plentiful, and most Oakland County houses in reasonable condition can be financed without difficulty.
That has a straightforward implication we'd rather state plainly: in much of Oakland County, if your house is in decent shape and you have time, listing it on the open market will usually net you more than any cash offer, including ours. Where a direct sale genuinely helps here is when something about the property or the situation takes the conventional route off the table — a house that needs more work than you want to fund, an estate that has to close, a condo in a building lenders won't approve, a divorce or relocation on a fixed date, or a landlord winding down a rental with tenants in place.
A typical Oakland County home is worth $373,377, up 2.6% over the past year and up 22% across five years. Oakland County's range is wide but less extreme than Wayne's: Troy and Farmington Hills sit well above the county typical value while Pontiac and Hazel Park sit well below it. What separates Oakland from the other two counties isn't the top of the range so much as the floor — even its lower-priced cities generally have enough comparable sales for an appraisal to be supported, which keeps financed buyers in the market.
Market figures: Zillow Home Value Index, July 2026. City figures use the same index for each city.
11 cities, each with its own page covering local housing stock, market conditions, and what complicates a sale there.
| City | Typical home value | vs. county |
|---|---|---|
| Troy | $466,018 | 25% above county |
| Farmington Hills | $395,176 | 6% above county |
| Southfield | $258,011 | 31% below county |
| Royal Oak | $337,493 | 10% below county |
| Waterford | $281,405 | 25% below county |
| Pontiac | $140,484 | 62% below county |
| Ferndale | $254,401 | 32% below county |
| Madison Heights | $222,737 | 40% below county |
| Oak Park | $237,113 | 36% below county |
| Clawson | $290,552 | 22% below county |
| Hazel Park | $160,694 | 57% below county |
Selling a house runs through county offices. Here's which ones, and what each one means for your sale.
Estates involving Oakland County real estate go through the Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac, the county seat. Where the deceased held the house alone and without a trust, a personal representative usually has to be appointed before the property can be sold. We can work with the estate's attorney and coordinate with heirs in different states.
Transfers are recorded with the Oakland County Register of Deeds in Pontiac, which is also where the title company will find any recorded liens, mortgages, or judgments that need to be cleared before the sale can close.
Michigan's tax foreclosure timeline is the same statewide: forfeiture after roughly a year of delinquency, foreclosure in the March of the third year, then auction. The Oakland County Treasurer administers this locally. As elsewhere, arrears are paid out of closing proceeds, so being behind doesn't prevent a sale as long as it happens before the deadline.
The same statewide rates apply: $3.75 per $500 of value to the state and $0.55 per $500 to the county, $8.60 per $1,000 combined, customarily paid by the seller. Because Oakland County values are the highest of the three, the dollar amount here is correspondingly larger.
On a Oakland County home selling at the county's typical value of $373,377, the combined state and county transfer tax comes to roughly $3,211. It's customarily the seller's cost, and it's deducted at closing rather than paid up front.
For a full breakdown of what a sale costs in Michigan, see our guide to the cost of selling a house.
No listing, no showings, no waiting on a buyer's financing. Three steps from first call to cash in hand.
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We look at your home in person. Then we give you a fair, written cash offer — usually within 24 hours.
Pick the date that works for you. We handle the paperwork. You walk away with cash.
Often you shouldn't, and we'd rather tell you that than waste your time. In most of Oakland County a sound, updated house will do better on the open market than any cash offer, ours included, because there are plenty of financed buyers and plenty of comparable sales. A direct sale makes sense when the conventional path isn't actually available to you — significant repairs you don't want to fund, an estate on a deadline, a condo in a building that fails lender review, a divorce or job relocation with a fixed date, or tenants in place. If your situation isn't one of those, we'll say so.
Yes, and condos are one of the most common reasons an Oakland County seller ends up needing a cash buyer. When an association has thin reserves, too high a rental ratio, pending litigation, or a special assessment underway, conventional and FHA lenders decline the entire project, and every financed buyer disappears at once regardless of how good your individual unit is. We buy in that situation and the building's lender status doesn't change our offer.
Browse every city we buy in, read about how the process works, or see our statewide Michigan page.
Tell us about the property. We'll get back to you with a no-obligation cash offer, usually within 24 hours. You choose the closing date.
