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Sell Your House Fast For Cash In Universal City

Sell a Universal City house fast for cash beside Randolph Air Force Base, with no listing season, no commissions and no repairs to arrange at all.

Prefer to talk first? Ring 401-219-4207 and ask for a figure on your address.

Universal City rooftops, Randolph Air Force Base and the Cibolo Creek corridor

Frontier Housing sources houses in Universal City privately for builders, so a homeowner in Coronado Village, along Aviation Boulevard or in the ranch streets raised for Randolph families can sell without funding a renovation, hosting showings through a PCS season or pricing against newer product in Cibolo and Schertz. Call 401-219-4207, describe the roof, the foundation and any Cibolo Creek drainage history plainly, and a written offer follows grounded in Bexar County closings. Only a homeowner who is selling can engage it, and it functions solely as a wholesaler placing houses with builders, never as the builder and never as a brokerage.

Five undertakings run beneath each offer described here, and privacy comes first: the sale is never advertised, no sign is planted and no photographs circulate. Closing lands inside 7 to 21 days when a military move or a family deadline presses, or on a later date you pick when an onward move needs sequencing. Your side of the settlement carries no commission, the offer loads no seller closing costs onto you, and the ranch home passes as it stands, with no inspection repair list and no contractors to line up.

What a private offer looks like

Two cards cover what selling this way actually involves, and what the arrangement can leave in your hands.

Selling to Frontier Housing

Sell without preparing the house for strangers

A recently completed house standing on a residential lotBought in its present condition
Close date7 to 21 days, or later when you need longer
Repairs and prepNone, the house passes over as it stands
ShowingsNone, no sign and no open days
PrivacyNothing about the sale is published
CommissionsNone charged to you
Seller closing costsNone under the terms we offer
The private figure

One figure, agreed before the clock starts

A direct purchase by Frontier Housing removes the commission and the seller closing costs, and it removes the carrying expense of a house sitting empty through a PCS season while orders move other families on.

Example sale price$289,500
Mortgage owed in the example$105,000
Commission a listed sale would take$15,923
Owner title policy allowance$2,200
Estimated net proceeds$166,377

Worked from the March 2026 Universal City median, at a 5.5 percent commission. The full cost breakdown sits further down this page.

Seller experiences

What sellers say about the process

Three homeowners, in their own words, on selling without a listing.

Man in a navy polo shirt, garden and house behind him

I needed to sell my house quickly and didn’t want to deal with repairs or listing it. The entire process was straightforward, and the team kept me updated throughout. We closed on the date we agreed on. Highly recommend!

John Williams
Man in a light blue shirt on a porch

I spoke with a few companies before deciding to work with them. They gave me a fair offer, explained everything clearly, and never pressured me. The whole experience was much easier than I expected.

Alex Lintz
Older man with gray hair in a dark sweater, garden behind him

My property needed quite a bit of work, and I didn’t want to spend money fixing it up. They bought it as-is and handled the process professionally. No surprises, no unnecessary delays. I would definitely work with them again.

Mike Schwarzrock
The process

How it works in Universal City

Three stages sit between a first conversation and money in hand. The route starts on the contact page or with a call to 401-219-4207.

1

Everything starts with a call in which the house is described in plain terms

That first call records your subdivision or street, roof and foundation condition, any drainage or settling history, and the completion date your onward plans genuinely require.

2

The team then builds the evidence, comparing the house against closed Universal City sales, amounts builders have paid across the northeast Bexar corridor for homes on usable lots, and renovated values with construction spending taken back out

3

The firm replies with a written offer that shows how the figure was built

Settle inside 7 to 21 days where a PCS or school deadline presses, hold for a later date that suits a San Antonio area move, or decline and keep the research free.

Start on the contact page

Ask for a private figure

Tell the team the address and the date you are working toward, and the reply carries a written figure with the local evidence underneath it, together with the completion terms set out in plain language.

Contact us for a figure

Talk it through first

Plenty of sellers ring before they have decided anything at all. The conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation, and it covers what a builder would likely pay for the lot and what the listed route would leave behind.

Contact the team
What is a Universal City house worth once a builder prices the lot?
The honest answer comes from evidence around your own street, and the team will walk you through that evidence.
Ask for that figure

Selling to Frontier Housing:

  • A direct two party deal with no listing paperwork, no sign in the yard and no showing schedule running through your street
  • Completion within 7 to 21 days when a relocation date is fixed, or a slower timetable arranged deliberately around your next address
  • The home accepted exactly as it stands, ending contractor bids, cleanout hire and pre listing renovation programmes
  • Cash standing behind the agreement, removing buyer loan approval and appraisal risk from the transaction
  • No commissions deducted from your proceeds, and no seller closing costs applied under the terms offered
  • Privacy from first call to recording, with no portal photographs, no marketing campaign and no neighbourhood announcement
  • Flexibility following closing where a short documented holdover lets a Bexar County move run in sequence
  • Net proceeds committed in writing before any clock starts, so you plan around a figure instead of a projection

A traditional listing:

Universal City reads differently in its two frames, with the March snapshot moving far faster than the trailing year, and a seller does better knowing both than trusting either alone. Houzeo printed a median sale price of 289,500 dollars for March 2026, up 0.01 percent on the year, with a median 46 days on market, 4.1 months of supply, a 98.59 percent sale to list ratio, 20 homes sold and 82 active listings (Houzeo, 2026). With no Texas transfer tax in the file, the listed cost argument is about commission and the title policy custom places on the seller, both priced below.

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Selling another Texas home, or just over the state line?

Northeast Bexar and corridor owners elsewhere in the programme can read the pages for San Antonio directly southwest, New Braunfels up Interstate 35 and Boerne northwest in the Hill Country edge.

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The detail behind a Universal City sale

Steps to selling a house in Universal City, Texas

  1. Plan the calendar from the bracket the two frames give, 46 days at the fast end and 81 at the slow end, rather than from either figure alone, because that bracket is the honest planning range for a listed Universal City sale.
  2. Fix the price by resale closings first and builder interest second, holding both in view. Your buyer, often a Randolph household, is comparing your ranch home against newer Schertz and Cibolo product, so the comparable set has to include both.
  3. Deliver the Seller Disclosure Notice on or before the contract effective date, covering foundation, roof, drainage and any Cibolo Creek water history, because a late notice hands the buyer a seven day termination right after receipt.
  4. Close through a title company escrow office, settle taxes and association balances, and record the deed with the county clerk of the county where the parcel sits.

Documents you need to sell a house in Texas

The central document in a Universal City file is the Seller Disclosure Notice under Property Code section 5.008, which a seller of a home with a single dwelling unit completes to the best of that seller belief and knowledge and delivers on or before the contract effective date. A buyer who first receives the notice after signing holds a seven day right to terminate counted from receipt. Eleven kinds of transfer sit outside the statute, among them foreclosure sales, fiduciary sales within estate administration, transfers between co owners or between spouses, and homes newly built and never occupied. Assemble the deed, the mortgage payoff statement, association documents where a subdivision levies them, and any survey or drainage records for creek side lots. An estate sale adds the letters testamentary evidencing the executor power to convey.

Cost to sell a house in Universal City, Texas

Texas charges no state real estate transfer tax at all, and what the county charges to record is nominal. What remains is commission plus the title policy that Texas custom places on the seller in most contracts, at premium rates promulgated by the Texas Department of Insurance, allowed here at 2,200 dollars at this price. Commission at 5 to 6 percent of the 289,500 dollar median spans 14,475 to 17,370 dollars, and 15,923 dollars at the 5.5 percent midpoint (Houzeo, 2026).

Net proceeds = sale price minus mortgage payoff minus closing costs minus commissions minus repairs and concessions

Take a Universal City house selling at the 289,500 dollar median while owing 105,000 dollars on its mortgage. Subtracting 15,923 dollars of commission at 5.5 percent and a 2,200 dollar owner title policy allowance, with no transfer tax line to deduct, leaves estimated net proceeds of 166,377 dollars before tax advice.

Ranch style homes and wide streets in Universal City near the Randolph gates

Current market conditions in Universal City

Median sale price 289,500 dollars, up 0.01 percent on a year earlier  |  Median days on market 46  |  Months of supply 4.1  |  Sale to list ratio 98.59 percent  |  Homes sold 20

Readings drawn from Houzeo, March 2026; Homes.com, trailing 12 months.

MeasureReadingSource
Median sale price, city289,500 dollars, up 0.01 percent on a year earlierHouzeo, March 2026
Median days on market, city46Houzeo, March 2026
Months of supply, city4.1Houzeo, March 2026
Sale to list ratio, city98.59 percentHouzeo, March 2026
Homes sold, city20, with 82 active listingsHouzeo, March 2026
Median sale price, trailing frame275,000 dollars, down 2 percent, 81 days on marketHomes.com, trailing 12 months
Median list price, trailing frame299,600 dollars, 5.70 months of supply, 199 salesHomes.com, trailing 12 months

The primary frame is the Houzeo city set for March 2026: a 289,500 dollar median across 20 sales, 46 median days on market, 4.1 months of supply and a 98.59 percent sale to list ratio (Houzeo, 2026). Houzeo printed a 0 dollar condo average for this city, a placeholder field that is rejected here and recorded in the data file behind this page.

Economic drivers in Universal City

Coronado Village and the streets off Pat Booker Road hold ranch style brick homes from the 1960s through the 1990s, with newer construction toward Cibolo Creek.

Flash flooding on Cibolo Creek tributaries and low water crossings is the hazard with a file, joined by extreme summer heat, spring hail and occasional tornadoes.

What this means for sellers in Universal City

Universal City counted 20,267 residents in the July 1, 2024 Census estimate, a Bexar County city built around Randolph Air Force Base on Interstate 35 and Loop 1604 northeast of San Antonio (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024). The base shapes everything: pilot training traffic overhead, military and retiree households as the core market, Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union as an anchor employer, and the Forum retail at Olympia Parkway serving the corridor.

The second frame is the Homes.com trailing twelve month view, which printed a 275,000 dollar median sale price, down 2 percent, an average 81 days on market, 5.70 months of supply, a 299,600 dollar median list price and 199 sales across the year (Homes.com, 2026). The March snapshot moving faster than the trailing year is a window effect, and the two frames are reported side by side rather than blended.

Frequently asked questions

How long does a Universal City house take to sell?
Houzeo measured a median 46 days on market for March 2026, while Homes.com averaged 81 days across its trailing year on 199 sales (Houzeo, 2026). Plan against the slower frame and treat the faster one as upside. A private completion through Frontier Housing runs 7 to 21 days, or settles on a later date you pick, without waiting out either frame.
What closing costs face a Universal City seller?
Commission carries the argument, about 15,923 dollars at the median under a 5.5 percent assumption, with the owner title policy, roughly 2,200 dollars at this price on Texas custom, behind it and no state transfer tax to pay at all (Houzeo, 2026). Inside a Frontier Housing offer the firm carries commission and seller closing costs, so judge the agreed price against your mortgage balance alone.
Do I need an attorney to close in Universal City?
No, Texas closings belong to title company escrow offices, not attorney tables, and no lawyer is required for a routine sale, though only attorneys may draft certain legal documents for others. The title company holds escrow, runs the title search, issues the policy and records the deed with the county clerk, Bexar County for most of the city and Guadalupe County for its eastern edge. Where counsel does earn a place is on estates, survey or title defects and contract disputes.
What must a Texas seller disclose in Universal City?
Section 5.008 of the Property Code sets the duty: the seller of a single unit home gives the buyer a written Seller Disclosure Notice, answered to the best of the seller belief and knowledge and due on or before the contract effective date, and a buyer who receives it late holds seven days from receipt to terminate. In Universal City the entries buyers weigh most are foundation performance on local soils, roof condition after hail seasons and any Cibolo Creek drainage history.
Can I sell a Universal City house without an agent?
Yes, a Texas owner may sell entirely without listing, and the title company closing, the county recording and the disclosure notice duty all proceed exactly as on a marketed sale. What disappears is the marketing season and the commission funding it, worth roughly 15,923 dollars at the Universal City median. Frontier Housing buys on that channel and puts its offer in writing with the workings shown.
How does Frontier Housing compare with listing or a We Buy Houses firm?
Listing in Universal City means selling an older ranch home to households who can also buy newer in Schertz or Cibolo, which suits a renovated home and punishes an ordinary one. Most We Buy Houses operators protect their margin first, which means the speed they sell is paid for from the seller side of resale value. Frontier Housing sources the house onward to builders, shows the Universal City closing evidence beneath its figure and charges no commission, so compare all three routes on net proceeds and calendar together.
Can I sell a Universal City house as it stands?
Yes, if the disclosure notice states the foundation, roof and water facts you know. Selling as is in Texas shifts repair responsibility to the buyer, but the section 5.008 duty to state known foundation, roof and water facts remains in full, and Bexar County buyers test slabs and drainage as a matter of routine. Frontier Housing prices the house as it stands in its first written offer and requires no repair programme.
What should Universal City sellers know about Cibolo Creek flooding?
Cibolo Creek and its tributaries drain the eastern side of the city, and Texas flash floods arrive on this ground with little warning, turning low crossings and creek side streets into the story of a storm. Sellers who can show how their lot handled past storms, with photographs, drainage work or elevation records, give buyers something solid to price, while silence on water invites steep caution discounts.
Can I sell before a Texas foreclosure sale?
Yes, but treat the calendar as urgent, because Texas foreclosure moves faster than almost anywhere in the country. A deed of trust foreclosure runs outside court: notice is posted and mailed 21 days ahead, the sale happens at the courthouse on the first Tuesday of the month under Property Code section 51.002, and ordinary home loans carry no redemption right after that sale. Any owner sale must be finished before that first Tuesday lands. With the runway measured in weeks, an owner behind on payments should move on the first notice, not the last.
Can I sell an inherited house in Universal City?
Yes, and Texas probate runs lighter than in most states. Most estates run under independent administration, where the appointed executor may sell real estate with limited court supervision once appointed, and small estate and muniment of title routes shorten qualifying files further still. A title company insuring the transfer will want the probate letters and the will on file before it commits. Frontier Housing works to probate calendars and can hold an offer open while a Bexar County estate completes its steps.
Does lead paint matter in Universal City?
For the older Randolph era streets, yes. The federal duty attaches to housing built before 1978, which in Universal City covers the earliest ranch subdivisions raised for base families in the 1960s and early 1970s. For a pre 1978 home the federal lead requirements attach: disclose known hazards, pass on any reports, supply the pamphlet and allow a 10 day testing window the buyer may waive in writing. A house built in 1994 sits outside the requirement entirely.
Can I sell a Universal City rental property with tenants in place?
Yes, tenanted homes sell readily in a base town, and a Texas lease survives a sale for its full term, leaving the buyer to take subject to it. Security deposits must be transferred and the tenant notified of the new owner for deposit refund purposes under Property Code chapter 92, and expect buyers to request the leases and payment history at the outset, because military tenancies are priced on paperwork. The tenancy changes the offer arithmetic, not the seller ability to sell directly.

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