Southgate, Wayne County
Cash buyers work all over Wayne County, Southgate included. 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 Southgate. Call (888) 471-3135. About Tevin
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Cash offers next door
Three ways to sell
Worked on a house worth $173,600 once fixed up, the median here, that needs a new roof and a furnace. Repairs are priced from our cost book: permit values filed in Metro Detroit blended with published Detroit figures.
$87,000
A real offer, confirmed at one walkthrough. Close in as little as 2 days with a clear title.
$165,000
The most money if the house is ready, after 30 to 90 days.
$139,000
A cash-out refinance, less what you owe, subject to a lender's approval.
Price my own house three ways Worked 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
The Census puts the median home in Southgate at $173,600, about the same as Wayne County's $178,500.
The median house was built in 1963, and 42% of the 13,225 homes here date from 1940 to 1959. Houses from those years are often on their second or third furnace and roof, and many still have their original sewer line.
40% of owners have no mortgage, so a cash price goes to them less closing costs and any taxes owed.
5% of homes stand vacant, by the Census count.
The median property tax bill is $3,292 a year; it is split at closing by the days each side owned the house.
Share of 13,225 homes, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024.
On the record
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
No cash buyer lists an office here yet. Rebuild Detroit buys here itself: type the address above for your offer, checked against the buyers who work this part of Metro Detroit.
The local rules
Since July 12, 2021, Southgate has inspected the outside of every house before it sells, for $200, and a Certificate of Compliance covers one sale. The owner can fix what the inspector lists or sell as is, with the buyer taking on the repairs.
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.
On a $173,600 sale, Michigan's transfer taxes come to about $1,496: $1,305 to the state and $191 to the county, usually paid by the seller at closing.
Who you are dealing with
Rebuild Detroit buys houses in Southgate, 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.
Questions
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 Southgate house worth $173,600 fixed up that needs a new roof and a furnace, that is about $87,000. Type your own address for your own offer; it holds 95% of the time when the condition you give is accurate.
Since July 12, 2021, Southgate has inspected the outside of every house before it sells, for $200, and a Certificate of Compliance covers one sale. The owner can fix what the inspector lists or sell as is, with the buyer taking on the repairs.
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.
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.
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Sources
County and city rules checked October 24, 2026 on each office's own site. Rules, fees and phone numbers change, so call before you count on one.
