We Buy Houses in Long Beach, CA

We Buy Houses in Long Beach, CA: The Quick Answer

We buy houses in Long Beach as-is, and we can buy yours, with no repairs or showings. After reviewing the property, we can typically provide a written cash offer within 24 to 48 hours.

On a direct purchase from us, there is no agent commission charged by us, and we cover the standard closing costs we agree to in the contract. You choose the closing date, and requesting an offer does not obligate you to sell.

Best fit: inherited homes, tenant-occupied rentals, properties needing major repairs, vacant homes, code issues, foreclosure timelines, or sellers who value certainty over maximizing a retail list price. A traditional listing may still produce a higher price for a retail-ready home, so compare net proceeds and timing before deciding.

Want a number first? Call or text (424) 435-2326 or use the cash-offer form above.

Long Beach is the second-largest city in Los Angeles County and, for a seller, really several cities.

A 1920s Craftsman in Rose Park or Bluff Park, a Spanish revival in California Heights, a 1950s ranch in Los Altos or Lakewood Village, a canal-front house in Naples, a North Long Beach bungalow and a Downtown condo tower unit can all close in the same week at prices from the low $500,000s to several million.

About 59 percent of the city’s households rent, which is why so many of the properties that come to us are duplexes, fourplexes and courtyard buildings around Alamitos Beach, Zaferia and the Wrigley district rather than single-family houses.

Cash Home Buyers CA is a Woodland Hills-based company that buys houses, condos and small apartment buildings in every part of Long Beach, from the Los Cerritos and Bixby Knolls streets off the 405 to the peninsula and the Port-side neighborhoods on the west side.

We deliver a written cash offer within 24 to 48 hours, buy the property as it stands with no repairs, commissions or showings, and close on the date you choose.

Long Beach home prices in 2026: a $700,000 to $850,000 median depending on what is counted

Movoto’s August 2026 report puts Long Beach’s median sold price across all property types at about $699,000, with 1,094 sales that month, up from 1,037 a year earlier, and a median of 64 days on market versus 68.

Homes.com, which weights its sample differently, shows a median of $855,000 as of September 2026, up 4 percent year over year, with three months of supply, roughly 2,300 sales in the past twelve months, single-family houses at a $985,000 median and condos at $520,000; by district it puts Central Long Beach near $700,000 and Zaferia near $525,000, both in buyer’s-market territory, while the city as a whole rates as a seller’s market.

The Census Bureau’s 2020 to 2024 estimate of median owner-occupied value is $807,000, and the city’s population has slipped about 3.5 percent since 2020 to roughly 450,000.

The gap between the two medians is the condo effect: Long Beach has one of the largest condo inventories in the county, and condos, especially older Downtown and Alamitos Beach units with rising HOA dues, are the slowest segment.

For a seller with a renovated house in Los Altos or Bixby Knolls, two months of marketing and multiple offers is realistic.

For a seller with a 1920s fourplex full of long-term tenants, a condo in a building facing a special assessment, or a house the family has not touched since the 1970s, the retail path is slower and riskier, and that is where our offer belongs in the comparison.

Long Beach rules that touch a sale: coastal zone, AB 1482, no city transfer tax

• Transfer tax: Long Beach is a charter city but has not adopted a city transfer tax. Los Angeles County’s documentary transfer tax of $1.10 per $1,000 is the only one, and the state’s December 2025 schedule lists Long Beach at the standard credited rate. On a $699,000 sale that is about $769, paid by the seller under county custom.
• Rent control: Long Beach has no local rent stabilization ordinance as of 2026; it does not appear on the statewide list of rent-control cities. Multi-unit buildings older than fifteen years are covered by California’s AB 1482, which caps increases at 5 percent plus CPI up to 10 percent and requires just cause after twelve months, with one month’s rent in relocation assistance for no-fault terminations. Single-family houses and condos are generally exempt.
• Coastal zone: Belmont Shore, Naples, the Peninsula, Alamitos Beach, the Downtown shoreline and other areas near the water are inside the California Coastal Zone, administered through the city’s Local Coastal Program. That governs what a buyer can build or alter later; it does not add steps to selling an existing house.
• Point of sale, fire, Mello-Roos: We found no Long Beach ordinance requiring a residential property report or occupancy inspection at sale. The city is flat and coastal with no Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. Mello-Roos is rare in a city incorporated in 1897; HOAs are a condo and townhouse matter, and in Long Beach they are a significant one.

From Naples canals to North Long Beach: the property we buy

Long Beach’s roughly 50 square miles of land hold about 176,000 dwelling units across dozens of named neighborhoods. On the east side, Belmont Shore, Belmont Heights, Naples and the Peninsula have 1920s to 1950s beach houses and canal-front properties on small lots.

Bluff Park, Rose Park, Alamitos Beach and the Downtown blocks hold the city’s densest mix of Craftsman bungalows, courtyard apartments and condo buildings. California Heights, Bixby Knolls and Los Cerritos are the Spanish revival and Tudor streets north of Wardlow.

Los Altos, Lakewood Village and the Plaza are 1950s ranch tracts near Cal State Long Beach. Wrigley, Zaferia and Cambodia Town along Anaheim Street and Pacific Coast Highway mix small houses with two- and four-unit buildings, and North Long Beach has the city’s most affordable single-family stock.

We buy across that whole range. The conditions we see most are pre-war foundations and knob-and-tube wiring, unpermitted units behind Craftsman houses, condos with deferred maintenance and rising dues, fourplexes with rents far below market, salt-air damage near the water, and estates that have been rented out for decades without updates.

Several of the neighborhoods with the best Craftsman stock, including Bluff Park, Rose Park and California Heights, include designated historic districts.

That does not stop a sale, but it shapes what the next owner can change on the outside, and it makes some buyers cautious about taking on a house that needs a full restoration. If your house sits in one of those districts, tell us on the first call.

We price the restoration realistically, including period windows, original wood siding and old plaster, and we do not expect you to do any of it before closing.

Why Long Beach owners call cash home buyers

• Landlords with AB 1482 tenants. Owners of older Long Beach duplexes and fourplexes who want out without evicting anyone sell us tenant-occupied property in Long Beach with leases, deposits and estoppels handled in escrow.
• Owners in default. When a notice of default is recorded, we can close before the trustee’s sale on a Long Beach house in foreclosure and get the equity to the owner rather than the auction.
• Houses that need everything. A pre-war house in Rose Park or a rented-out ranch in North Long Beach with original systems is a candidate for selling as-is in Long Beach rather than funding a renovation first.
• Divorce and relocation. When a settlement or a job at the Port, Boeing or the hospital system fixes a date, a divorce sale in Long Beach or a relocation sale to us closes on that date rather than on a lender’s.

Anyone who simply needs to sell a Long Beach house fast gets the same offer.

Rentals near Cal State Long Beach

The blocks around Cal State Long Beach and the nearby medical campuses are full of houses and small buildings rented by the room or by the unit, and the calendar matters.

Many of those leases run on the academic year, so a sale that closes in August with tenants moving in the same week is a different problem from one that closes in June.

We look at when each lease ends, whether deposits are in order, and whether the owner wants the tenants to stay. A building with leases that expire together can sometimes close vacant on a date we agree on, without anyone being pushed out.

When one sibling lives in the house and the others do not

Long Beach has plenty of family houses with a complicated story: a parent who passed, one adult child still living there, others who moved away and want their share.

Selling on the open market means asking the sibling in the house to leave, prepare it and keep it show-ready for weeks. That is where families fall out.

A single written offer, with a closing date that gives the occupant time to find a place, lets everyone see the same number. We have no need to push the date earlier than the family is ready.

Escrow and recording for a Long Beach cash sale

After acceptance we open escrow, order a preliminary title report and, for condos, request the association’s documents right away, since a slow HOA is the most common delay in Long Beach. Trust sales need no court step. In probate, we buy from an executor with full IAEA authority after notice to heirs; if the court must confirm the sale, we are not the right buyer.

The deed records with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk at 12400 Imperial Highway in Norwalk, and escrow wires proceeds the day recording confirms.

Under Los Angeles County custom the seller pays the owner’s title policy and the transfer tax and escrow is split; we pick up the title policy on our purchases.

A house with clear title records in about two weeks; condos waiting on HOA documents, tenant-occupied buildings and estates typically run three to five weeks, on the date you choose.

Listing in Long Beach versus selling to us

At a $699,000 median, a commission at the 5.08 percent statewide average in Clever’s August 2026 survey is about $35,500, before prep, a termite report, an inspection credit and two months of carrying costs. A remodeled house in Bixby Knolls, Los Altos or Belmont Heights still nets more on the open market than we will pay, and we will say so when we see one.

The comparison favors us on the properties financed buyers struggle with: fourplexes with below-market rents, condos in buildings with litigation or special assessments that lenders will not touch, houses with unpermitted units, and estates in original condition.

On those, once commission, repairs, vacancy and fall-through risk are subtracted from a listing price, our net is usually within range, and it comes with a certain date. We provide both columns so you can decide.

Why Long Beach condo sales stall, and how to get ahead of it

Condos are a big share of what we see in Long Beach, and the delay is rarely the buyer. It is paperwork. A seller has to request the association's governing documents, budget, reserve study and any notices about pending assessments, and the management company works at its own pace.

Older buildings Downtown and along Ocean Boulevard are the usual slow spots because their document packages are long and their managers change often.

If you own a unit, ask your manager for that package now, even before you have an offer, and find out whether an assessment has been approved or is only being discussed.

We read these closely because deferred maintenance on elevators, balconies, roofs and garage waterproofing shows up in the reserve study long before it shows up in the monthly dues.

Knowing what is coming lets us price the unit honestly and lets you decide whether to sell before or after a vote.

Selling a Long Beach rental you have held for years

Plenty of Long Beach landlords bought decades ago, kept the same few tenants for years, and now face aging plumbing, paper leases, a tired spreadsheet and a manager they no longer trust. They are not in trouble. They are just done, and the building does not show well enough to list without a long list of fixes first.

If that sounds familiar, gather what you have before we talk: the current rent roll, copies of each lease, a ledger of security deposits, any notices you have served, and a note on who pays which utilities.

With those in hand we can price the building quickly and your escrow officer can prepare the tenant paperwork without chasing you. Where rents have lagged the market, our number reflects what the building produces today, and we will explain how we got there rather than just state it.

Taxes deserve a conversation before you sign. Long-held rentals can involve depreciation recapture, and a 1031 exchange has strict timelines that start the day you close. Your CPA can tell you which applies, and we are happy to schedule the closing around what they recommend.

Long Beach seller questions

Will you buy a Long Beach condo in a building with a special assessment or pending litigation?

Yes. Those are exactly the units that conventional lenders decline, which is why they sit. We read the HOA documents, price the assessment into the offer, and close with cash so the building's financing status does not matter.

Can I sell my Long Beach fourplex without evicting the tenants?

Yes. AB 1482 covers most older Long Beach buildings, and a sale does not end any tenancy. We buy with the tenants in place, honor existing rents, and take assignment of deposits in escrow.

Does Long Beach have a city transfer tax or a point-of-sale inspection?

No to both. The seller pays only Los Angeles County's $1.10 per $1,000 documentary transfer tax, and there is no city property report or retrofit certificate required to close.

Does being in the coastal zone affect selling my Belmont Shore or Naples house?

Not the sale itself. The Coastal Zone and the city's Local Coastal Program regulate future construction and alterations, which a buyer needs to understand, but no coastal permit is needed to transfer an existing house.

How fast can I sell my house for cash in Long Beach?

Two weeks for a house with clear title and no tenants; three to five weeks for condos, tenant-occupied buildings or estates. The closing date is yours.

If you own a house, condo or building anywhere in Long Beach and want a firm cash number, call or text 424-435-2326. We will see the property once and deliver a written offer within 24 to 48 hours with no obligation. Our how it works page explains the process in detail.

2026 local market research: See our Long Beach Housing & Home Seller Report 2026 for current seller-focused housing context.

Written and reviewed by the Cash Home Buyers CA team, a Woodland Hills-based cash home buyer serving Los Angeles County. Market figures are from Movoto, Homes.com and the U.S. Census Bureau as of September 2026 and are updated periodically.