19 houses are for sale inside Claytown's boundary right now, in our homes index. Type the address and Rebuild Detroit makes you a real cash offer, checked against our network of local buyers.
Tevin Jackson, founder of Rebuild Detroit
We buy houses in Claytown, Detroit. Call (888) 471-3135.
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What a typical Claytown house could bring, three ways
Worked on a house worth $75,181 once fixed up, the median here, that needs a new roof, a furnace, and updated wiring. Repairs are priced from our cost book: permit values filed in Metro Detroit blended with published Detroit figures.
Rebuild Detroit's cash offer
$20,500
Worth after repairs
$75,181
60% of that
$45,109
Minus a new roof, a furnace, and updated wiring
-$24,700
A real offer, confirmed at one walkthrough. Close in as little as 2 days with a clear title.
List it on the MLS
$71,000
Sale price, fixed up
$75,181
Listing, buyer's agent and closing
-$4,181
The most money if the house is ready, after 30 to 90 days.
Keep it and take cash out
$60,000
Home value
$75,181
Up to 80% of it
$60,145
A cash-out refinance, less what you owe, subject to a lender's approval.
Price my own house three waysWorked on the typical house here. Type your own address for your own offer from Rebuild Detroit, real and confirmed at one walkthrough. Loans are made by lenders on their own terms.
The houses
What Claytown houses are like
The Census puts the median home in Claytown at $75,181, 10% below Detroit's $83,900.
The median house was built in 1938, and 63% of the 6,723 homes here date from before 1940. Houses that old often still carry plaster walls, original wiring and a cast iron drain stack, the work a cash buyer prices in first.
84% of owners have no mortgage, so a cash price goes to them less closing costs and any taxes owed.
13% of homes stand vacant, by the Census count.
The median property tax bill is $1,259 a year; it is split at closing by the days each side owned the house.
When Claytown's homes were built
Before 194063%
1940 to 195920%
1960 to 197911%
1980 to 19994%
2000 and later1%
Share of 6,723 homes, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024.
On the record
Who is buying and selling in Claytown
Our homes index has 19 houses for sale in Claytown right now at a median asking price of $137,500, on the market a median 38 days. It also holds 72 sold listings here.
119 building permits went out here in the last 12 months, 2 rehabs and 5 demolitions among them.
1,086 parcels in ZIP 48210 carry a public distress signal in the city's records, 28 on the vacant property registry and 4 with a demolition order.
From Rebuild Detroit's homes index, the assessors' recorded sales, the building departments' permits and the City of Detroit's open data, refreshed daily.
Local cash buyers
Cash buyers who buy Claytown houses as is
Cash buyers in our network work in Claytown from the towns next door. Rebuild Detroit makes its own offer and checks your request against these buyers too, so you see the best one. Look any of them up.
Detroit has not required a pre-sale inspection on a house since November 2014; a seller may still order one. In February 2026 the City Council's Legislative Policy Division reported that bringing mandatory inspections back would take an amendment to the Housing Code.
March 1, 20262025 taxes still unpaid go to the Wayne County Treasurer as delinquent, with a 4% fee and 1% a month interest.
March 1, 2027The house forfeits to the Wayne County Treasurer: a $175 fee is added and the interest grows by half a percent a month.
March 31, 2028The last day to pay. After a circuit court judgment, the Wayne County Treasurer takes title and the house goes to auction that summer or fall.
A sale before the last day pays the taxes at closing, and what is left is yours. A former owner can claim what a foreclosure sale brings above the taxes owed by filing Form 5743 with the Wayne County Treasurer by the July 1 after the foreclosure.
The county offices
Wayne County Treasurer
400 Monroe Street, 5th Floor, Detroit MI 48226 (313) 224-5990
A warranty deed or a land contract must be certified by the Wayne County Treasurer for paid property taxes before the Register of Deeds records it, so back taxes surface before a closing, not after. Wayne County Register of Deeds, document recording
Rebuild Detroit buys houses in Claytown, the company Tevin Jackson founded and runs. When you ask for an offer here, the offer comes from us, not from a list of your details sold to investors, and it is checked against the local cash buyers in our network so you see the best way to sell.
Rebuild Detroit buys houses in Claytown itself, and cash buyers and wholesalers in our network serve it too, among them Dearborn Heights Carpet & Flooring Group. Rebuild Detroit makes its own offer and checks your request against them, so you see the best one.
How much would Rebuild Detroit pay for a Claytown house?
Our offer starts from what the house would sell for fixed up, less the repairs, and never above what listing it would leave you. On a Claytown house worth $75,181 fixed up that needs a new roof, a furnace, and updated wiring, that is about $20,500. Type your own address for your own offer; it holds 95% of the time when the condition you give is accurate.
Do I need a city inspection to sell a house in Claytown?
Detroit has not required a pre-sale inspection on a house since November 2014; a seller may still order one. In February 2026 the City Council's Legislative Policy Division reported that bringing mandatory inspections back would take an amendment to the Housing Code.
What if I am behind on property taxes in Wayne County?
Unpaid taxes go to the Wayne County Treasurer ((313) 224-5990) on March 1. If they stay unpaid, the house forfeits a year later and the foreclosure takes title on March 31 of the year after that. Selling before then pays the taxes at closing, and the rest is yours.
Can I sell my Claytown house as is?
Yes. Rebuild Detroit and the cash buyers in our network buy as is, with no repairs or cleanout. You still fill out the Michigan seller disclosure with what you know about the house, and a title company checks for liens and pays you at closing.