We Buy Houses in Pomona, CA

Selling in Pomona? Here is the quick answer

We can buy your Pomona property as-is, 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.

Pomona is one of only a handful of cities in Los Angeles County that charges its own documentary transfer tax on top of the county’s. The Registrar-Recorder lists Pomona at $2.20 per $1,000 of price, which stacks on the county’s $1.10, so the seller of a $670,000 house hands over roughly $2,200 more at closing than a seller in a city that collects only the county rate.

Cash Home Buyers CA is a Woodland Hills company that buys houses across Los Angeles County, and Pomona is a city we know well because it has so much of what a cash buyer is useful for: a large stock of pre-1950 houses in the Lincoln Park and Wilton Heights areas, a big rental base now covered by city rent rules, and multi-generational households working through estates. We make a written cash offer within 24 to 48 hours, buy the house as it sits, charge no commission, and let you pick the closing date.

Where Pomona prices and selling times stand as of August 2026

Movoto’s August 2026 market report puts Pomona’s median sold price at about $670,000, or roughly $418 per square foot, on 274 closed sales for the month, down slightly from 285 sales the same month a year earlier. The number that matters more for a seller is time: the average Pomona house took 64 days to sell in August 2026, up from 54 days a year before, and there were 309 active listings competing for buyers.

For a seller, two months on market plus a financed escrow on top of it means a listing started in September closes near the new year if everything goes right. Buyers at Pomona’s price point lean heavily on FHA and VA financing, and those loans bring appraisal conditions and repair demands that a 1920s bungalow with knob-and-tube wiring or a garage conversion without permits frequently fails. A cash sale removes the appraisal, the lender repair list and the sixty days of showings.

Pomona’s city transfer tax, rent rules and what the county adds

• City transfer tax: Pomona (county tax code 57) collects $2.20 per $1,000 of the sale price, per the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s transfer-tax schedule as of September 2026. It is paid at recording along with the county tax.
• County transfer tax: Los Angeles County charges $0.55 per $500, which is $1.10 per $1,000. Combined city and county tax on a Pomona sale is $3.30 per $1,000, about $2,211 on a $670,000 house. Seller customarily pays; in our offers we simply cover it.
• Rent stabilization and just cause: Pomona’s permanent rent stabilization ordinance, No. 4359, took effect January 1, 2026 and is run by the Neighborhood Services Department’s Housing Stabilization Division. Per the city, residential rent increases are capped at 5 percent a year with only one increase allowed in any 12-month period, a landlord must have an at-fault or no-fault reason to end a tenancy, and a no-fault termination requires relocation assistance. Landlords can petition for a higher increase on fair-return or capital-improvement grounds. Check your unit’s status with the division before deciding whether to sell vacant or occupied; we buy either way.
• Point-of-sale inspections: Pomona does not require a city occupancy inspection or a city-issued report before a residential sale. The standard California disclosures, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and water-heater strapping still apply.
• Fire, coastal and Mello-Roos: Pomona is not a coastal city and is not a foothill fire city in the way Claremont or Glendora are; the flat core of town is outside the state’s high fire-hazard mapping. Mello-Roos assessments are uncommon in Pomona’s older neighborhoods; check the tax bill on newer Phillips Ranch and south Pomona tracts.

Lincoln Park to Phillips Ranch: the Pomona houses we buy

Pomona was incorporated in 1888 and spent the 1920s as the self-described Queen of the Citrus Belt, so its oldest neighborhoods hold Craftsman bungalows, Spanish Revival cottages and the occasional Victorian. The Lincoln Park Historic District north of downtown is the best known, with Wilton Heights and the streets around Ganesha Park close behind. Those houses keep their original wood windows and also their galvanized plumbing, undersized panels and shifted raised foundations. South and east, the postwar tracts around Cal Poly Pomona and the Fairplex are ranch houses on modest lots, many with converted garages and back units that were never permitted. Phillips Ranch on the southwest hills is the newest part of the city, built out mostly since the 1980s with two-story tract houses, some under HOAs.

We buy all of it: historic-district bungalows needing a full systems update, tract ranches with three families in them, duplexes and fourplexes near downtown, condos along Garey and Holt Avenues, and hard-used Phillips Ranch houses.

The Pomona sellers who call us most

• Landlords stepping away from Pomona’s rent rules. Owners of a duplex or small apartment building who would rather not manage under a 5 percent cap and a just-cause standard sell to us with the tenants in place. Selling a tenant-occupied house in Pomona explains how we handle leases and deposits.
• Families settling a parent’s estate. Pomona’s 53 percent owner-occupancy rate and long-held houses mean estates with three or four siblings and a house that needs everything. Where probate is required it runs through the Los Angeles Superior Court, and we can buy during the process or after letters issue.
• Owners behind on the mortgage. A notice of default on a house with equity is solvable if the sale closes before the trustee’s sale date, and cash is the only way to be sure of that. See selling a Pomona house in foreclosure.
• Divorcing couples who need one clean number instead of months of showings and a negotiated repair credit. Selling during a divorce in Pomona covers how proceeds are split at escrow, and sellers leaving the area for work use the same timeline; see selling a Pomona house when relocating.

If your house is in rough shape, selling a Pomona house as-is is the page to read next. If the priority is speed, start with sell my house fast in Pomona.

Escrow, title and recording for a Pomona cash sale in Los Angeles County

After you accept our written offer, a neutral escrow company opens the file and a title company runs the preliminary report. Pomona houses held in one family for generations often carry old liens, an unreleased deed of trust from an old refinance, or a deceased owner still on title; the title company clears those while escrow runs. When title is clean we wire the funds, and the grant deed is recorded with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in Norwalk. A straightforward Pomona sale can record in two to three weeks; an estate sale or a sale with tenants takes whatever time the paperwork needs, and you set the date.

In Los Angeles County the seller customarily pays the county and city transfer taxes and the owner’s title policy, and buyer and seller split escrow fees. In our offers those seller-side costs are built in, so the number on the offer letter is the number that hits your account, less any mortgage payoff and prorated property taxes.

Listing a Pomona house versus taking our cash offer

On a $670,000 Pomona sale, a typical California commission of around 5 percent is about $33,500, and the combined $3.30-per-$1,000 transfer tax adds about $2,200 either way. Add the repairs an FHA appraiser flags on an older house, the mortgage payments while it sits at today’s 64-day average, and the risk of a financed buyer’s loan collapsing in escrow, and the gap between a listing and a cash offer narrows. Our offer is below what a fully renovated house fetches on the open market, because we take on the renovation and the holding time.

Listing is still the right call for some Pomona owners. A remodeled Phillips Ranch house with a view, or a restored Lincoln Park bungalow with permits for every change, will draw multiple financed buyers and should go on the market with an agent. We will tell you that if it describes your property. Our offer makes the most sense when the house needs work, has tenants, has title or permit problems, or simply needs to be sold on a date you control.

Frequently asked questions about selling a Pomona house for cash

Does Pomona really have its own transfer tax?

Yes. The county recorder lists Pomona at $2.20 per $1,000 in addition to the county's $1.10, for a combined $3.30 per $1,000. Most neighboring cities charge only the county rate. We account for it in our offer so it does not reduce your net.

Can I sell my Pomona rental with tenants under the city's rent stabilization rules?

You can. Selling does not require the tenants to leave, and we buy occupied units and take over the leases and deposits at closing. That also avoids the relocation assistance a no-fault termination triggers under Ordinance No. 4359.

How fast can a Pomona house close for cash?

Our written offer follows within 24 to 48 hours of our visit to the property. With clear title, recording at the Norwalk recorder can happen in about two to three weeks. If you need longer to move, we set the closing for the date you choose.

Will you buy a Pomona house with an unpermitted garage conversion or back unit?

Yes. Unpermitted conversions are common across Pomona's postwar tracts and they are one of the main reasons financed sales fall apart. We buy as-is, disclose what we know, and deal with permits or removal after closing.

Do I have to fix anything or clean out the house before you buy it?

No. Take what you want and leave the rest, including furniture and a garage full of belongings. We handle the cleanout, the roof, the plumbing and whatever else the house needs after we own it.

If you own a house in Pomona and want a real number without the sixty-day wait, call us at 424-435-2326 or send the address online. We will look at the property, explain the offer line by line including the city transfer tax, and you decide. The steps are at how our cash-offer process works.

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 and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder as of August and September 2026 and are updated periodically.