Sell Your House Fast in St. Louis and Know the Cost.

Across our last 111 listings the median time to go under contract was 5 days, and 63% went under contract within a week. Closing then takes another 30 to 45 days when the buyer is financing, and less when they are not. Realistically, budget for 60-90 days between signing a listing agreement and closing.

A cash investor can usually fund 7 to 14 days after you accept. But sometimes they do their due diligence and discount you at the last minute. So the real gap is a few weeks, not months. A few weeks is what you are being asked to trade the discount for.

They do not publish it, and the offer is never itemized. One discounted sale price absorbs the commission, the marketing, the repairs, and the profit margin. The fix is cheap. Get a real market number before you accept, even if you take the cash offer anyway. One offer is not a market, and we will give you that number whether or not you list with us.

Two things decide it: whether probate has cleared, and whether the house can be shown. Probate timing is the constraint people underestimate. Ask your attorney where you stand before you decide anything about price. If the house can be shown, it will usually earn more on the market, even after a few extra weeks.

Not always. Plenty of homes sell as-is at a fair price, but not a premium price. We walk the house and tell you which repairs return more than they cost. It is your choice whether you want to make them or not. A deep clean, decluttering and professional photography move the number more than a renovation you will not recover.

That is the only math that matters. Take the likely sale price. Subtract the commission, seller-paid closing costs and any repair credits. Compare what is left against the cash offer less your payoff.

Commission is a real cost. We will tell you exactly what ours is once we have seen the home, because it depends on the property, the price point and what your sale needs. In most cases we see, the gap between an investor offer and the market price is larger than the total cost of selling. Not in all of them. That is why we run both numbers first.

Sometimes. Every year, we have numerous listings closed without ever reaching the open market, to buyers already in our network. It depends on the house, the price point and who we have looking, so nobody can promise it in advance. It is the one route that gives you speed and privacy without a discount, and it costs nothing to ask.

Talk to somebody early. Options narrow as the timeline shortens, and what's open to you three months out may not be open in the last few weeks. We are not attorneys, and we do not give legal advice. We can tell you what the house would bring and how quickly, so you know whether selling solves the problem. If it doesn't, we will tell you.

No, and we take no referral fee for sending you to anyone who does. We are listing agents. We earn nothing at all if you take a cash offer.

That is worth knowing before you read anything else here. It is the reason the comparison above is worth reading.

We sell homes across the Missouri side of the Greater St. Louis region. Here are the main areas we serve:

St. Louis City: Central West End, Downtown, Downtown West, Midtown, Forest Park Southeast, The Grove, Shaw, Tower Grove South, Tower Grove East, Soulard, Lafayette Square, Benton Park, Fox Park, The Hill, Dogtown, St. Louis Hills, Southampton, Princeton Heights, Holly Hills and Carondelet.

St. Louis County: Clayton, University City, Richmond Heights, Maplewood, Brentwood, Rock Hill, Warson Woods, Olivette, Ladue, Frontenac, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Kirkwood, Webster Groves, Des Peres, Town and Country, Manchester, Ballwin, Ellisville, Chesterfield, Wildwood, Valley Park, Fenton and Eureka.

St. Charles County: St. Charles, St. Peters, O'Fallon, Lake St. Louis, Cottleville, Dardenne Prairie, Wentzville, Weldon Spring, New Melle, Augusta, Defiance, Foristell, St. Paul, Portage Des Sioux, West Alton, Flint Hill and the surrounding unincorporated communities.

Other surrounding counties: Arnold, Festus, Pevely, High Ridge, Hillsboro and Imperial in Jefferson County; Troy, Moscow Mills, Winfield and Elsberry in Lincoln County; Warrenton, Wright City, Foristell and Marthasville in Warren County; and Washington, Union, Pacific, St. Clair and Sullivan in Franklin County.

That list is not a boundary. If your town is nearby and not named here, send us the address and we will tell you whether we are the right team for it.

Five of these towns have a seller page of their own, with recent sales and what moves the price there: Chesterfield, Cottleville, Lake St. Louis, O'Fallon and Wentzville.