Cash home buyers in Calgary
We buy houses in Calgary with our own money — not a network’s.
One visit, a written offer with the arithmetic shown, and you pick the closing date. No commission, no repairs, no showings.
Most “we buy houses” advertising in Calgary is not a buyer.
It is a call centre, or a lead broker, or a wholesaler who intends to sign a contract with you and then sell that contract to somebody else before it closes. You find out which one you are dealing with at the worst possible moment.
That is worth naming plainly, because the phrase itself tells you nothing. Four different businesses use it: a company that buys and renovates houses, a wholesaler who assigns your contract on for a fee, a lead generator who sells your phone number to several investors at once, and a franchise call centre passing you to whoever paid for the territory. Only the first one is a buyer.
How to check us, specifically
Matthew Mai is a licensed Realtor with CIR Realty in Alberta, which means the licence sits on the public register the Real Estate Council of Alberta maintains — searchable by anyone, without asking us. The company is BBB Accredited and that file is public too. The phone number on this page reaches Matthew Mai rather than a queue.
On the assignment question: we do not assign. We buy the house, we renovate it, and we carry the cost of doing that. The contract you sign is the contract that closes.
What paying cash actually removes
Not a discount you are being talked into — three specific ways a sale falls apart, deleted.
- No financing condition
- No lender withdrawal
- No appraisal
- No low valuation reopening the price
- No buyer selling their own house first
- No showings
- No staging
- No repairs before closing
- No commission
- No listing agreement
A conventional sale carries a financing condition, an appraisal, and often a buyer who has to sell their own place first. Each one is a date on which somebody else can change their mind. Removing them is most of what a cash sale is actually for — and it matters more the tighter your own timeline is.
The number itself is a separate question, and we show the whole arithmetic. We pay less than a renovated, fully marketed listing would fetch. What we do not do is hide how we got there, or pretend the trade is free.
What selling to us means
You do none of it.
- No commission
- No repairs
- No cleaning
- Any condition
- You pick the closing date
- Empty or tenanted
- One visit, one number, in writing
Whatever the house is
None of it stops us.
- Old or outdated
- Inherited
- Behind on payments
- Fire or water damaged
- Major repairs needed
- Foundation or mould
- Difficult tenants
Whatever condition it is in
Condition changes the number. It does not change the answer.
- Flood history
- Foundation movement
- Mould
- Fire damage
- Poly-B
- Asbestos
- Former grow op
- Hoarder houses
- Still full of belongings
- Tenants in place
- Inherited or in probate
- A bank that will not finance it
More detail where it applies: a house with damage, an inherited house, a rental with tenants still in it.