Serving Truro, Falmouth, Newquay & All of Cornwall
Direct House Buyers in Cornwall — Any Property, Any Condition, Sold Fast
Fishermen's cottages, granite terraces, harbourside flats and inland farmhouses — whatever you own and whatever state it's in, we make cash offers across Truro, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, St Ives and every corner of Cornwall without agents, viewings, or a chain to worry about.
Three Cornish Markets, One Fast Way to Sell
A cathedral city, a working harbour and a holiday coastline — each with its own reasons a sale can stall
Cornwall isn't one property market, it's several. We buy across all of them, whatever's slowing yours down.
A cathedral city surrounded by former mining land
Truro's Georgian streets sit above centuries of tin and copper mining — old mine shafts, contaminated ground and mineral rights can all complicate a straightforward sale here, especially further out toward Camborne and Redruth.
A working port with dense, historic harbourside housing
Falmouth's steep harbourside streets are packed with fishermen's cottages and Victorian terraces, many with restricted access, no off-road parking, and ageing granite construction that standard surveys flag as non-standard.
A tourist coastline reshaped by second homes and holiday lets
Newquay, St Ives and Padstow have some of the highest second-home rates in the country — restrictive local-occupancy clauses, high holiday-let service charges and seasonal demand swings all make a fast sale harder than the postcard suggests.
Why Sales Stall Here
Four reasons agents struggle to sell property in Cornwall
None of these rule out a sale with us. They're exactly the situations a cash buyer exists for.
Former mine workings & mineral rights
Old tin and copper mine shafts run beneath large parts of Cornwall, and a coal/mining search flagging a nearby shaft or unresolved mineral rights is a common reason mainstream lenders hesitate.
Second-home & holiday-let restrictions
A growing number of Cornish developments carry local-occupancy or principal-residence clauses restricting who can buy, which shrinks the pool of eligible buyers dramatically in towns like St Ives and Padstow.
Coastal weathering & granite damp
Solid granite walls with no cavity, combined with Atlantic-facing exposure, are prone to penetrating damp that a standard mortgage survey routinely flags on Cornwall's older coastal cottages.
Rural access & farm outbuildings
Smallholdings and converted barns across inland Cornwall often come with shared access tracks, agricultural ties, or outbuildings without full planning consent — all common reasons a mortgage application stalls.
Buying & Selling in Cornwall
Why speed matters so much in Cornwall's property market
Cornwall's coastline, harbours and moorland make it one of the most desirable places to own property in the country — but that desirability doesn't automatically translate into a fast sale. Here's the fuller picture of buying and selling quickly in Cornwall, and where we fit into it.
Second-home demand distorts the picture
Cornwall has among the highest concentrations of second homes anywhere in England, and coastal towns like St Ives, Padstow and Rock regularly headline national house-price stories. But that headline demand is often for a specific type of property at a specific price point — an inland farmhouse, an ex-local-authority flat, or a fisherman's cottage with a restrictive local-occupancy clause can sit unsold for months while a picture-perfect harbour cottage two streets away goes to sealed bids. Which side of that gap your property falls on matters far more than the county's reputation.
The tourist season runs the calendar
Cornwall's economy leans heavily on visitor numbers, and viewing activity on the open market tends to follow the same pattern — busy from Easter through late summer, then noticeably quieter once the schools go back. If you need to sell outside that window, whether because of a job move, a bereavement, or simply because life doesn't wait for tourist season, an agent's board can go months without a single serious viewing. We buy in cash year-round, so the calendar has no bearing on how quickly we can move.
Historic construction needs a buyer who gets it
A huge proportion of Cornwall's housing stock is solid granite or cob, built long before cavity walls and damp courses existed, and a lot of it sits above old mine workings that never made it onto modern planning maps. Mainstream buyers relying on a high-street mortgage often find their lender simply won't proceed once a mining search or damp survey comes back with a flag. We don't need mortgage finance to complete, so granite, cob, or a nearby mine shaft becomes a factor in our offer rather than a dealbreaker.
Buying into Cornwall has its own pressures
People relocating to Cornwall for retirement, remote work or a lifestyle change are often competing hard for property in the most desirable spots, and a slow sale on their existing home can mean losing out to a buyer with cash already in hand. A guaranteed, fast sale on your current property removes that risk — you know exactly when your funds land, and you're in a stronger position to move quickly when the right Cornish property comes up.
Where we fit into a Cornwall sale
We're not trying to out-bid an estate agent on price, and we say that plainly on every page of this site: our cash offer reflects speed and certainty, not a top-of-market valuation. What we offer instead is a genuinely fast, chain-free route through the exact obstacles that stall so many Cornish sales — a mining search flag, a restrictive local-occupancy clause, a granite cottage a lender won't touch, or simply an owner who needs to sell before the next season starts.
We look at properties across Truro, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, St Ives and every village in between individually, factor the real condition and any restrictions into a fair cash figure, and can typically complete in as little as 7 to 10 days once you accept. No viewings, no chain above or below you, and no last-minute renegotiation after a survey. If speed and certainty matter more to you right now than squeezing out the last few percent of a market price, that's exactly the trade we exist for.
Seller Toolkit
Official sources worth checking before you sell
You don't need a solicitor to look these up yourself — they'll answer most of the questions a buyer's surveyor would raise anyway.
Worried about historic mining beneath your property? The gov.uk mining search guidance and a search through the Cornwall Council planning portal will confirm known workings, and Cornwall Council also covers council tax bands, planning history and building control for the whole county under its single unitary authority.
Selling a listed building or a property in one of Cornwall's conservation areas? The Historic England National Heritage List confirms a building's exact listing grade in seconds. For land near the Fal Estuary, the Camel or the Tamar, run your postcode through the gov.uk long-term flood risk map before listing — it's the first thing a cautious buyer's solicitor will check.
Cornwall's coast and countryside draw the crowds for good reason — the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and sites like the Eden Project keep the county in demand year after year — but that doesn't fix a mining search flag or a restrictive occupancy clause. A cash sale does.
Towns & Areas We Cover
We buy property across every town and village in Cornwall
Local knowledge, no lecture required: a fisherman's cottage near Falmouth can sit waiting on a specialist mining search for months, and a St Ives flat with a local-occupancy clause often trips up a mortgage valuer before a viewing's even booked. We've priced around both often enough that neither slows our offer down.