Sell your Petersburg home for cash.
Nobu Holdings buys houses across Petersburg - from Old Towne to Poplar Lawn - for one clean cash offer. As-is, no repairs, no fees, and you pick the closing date.
$0
closing costs to you
14 days
fastest close
100%
cash offers
We buy houses in Petersburg
Built for how Petersburg homes really sell.
Petersburg carries a deep and difficult housing story. Old Towne's Federal and antebellum buildings, the Victorian blocks of Poplar Lawn and Walnut Hill, and the historic settlement of Pocahontas Island stand alongside a large inventory of vacant and tax-delinquent houses. Decades of population loss left many homes empty, blighted, or tangled in estates, and the city's vacant-building registration and blight enforcement add real pressure on owners of properties that a traditional buyer will not touch.
We built Nobu Holdings for exactly these houses. We buy Petersburg properties as-is - a boarded Old Towne rowhouse, a vacant home on the city's registration list, an inherited house that has sat empty for years - for one cash offer with the numbers shown, no repairs and no cleanout required. There is no lender to demand the property be brought up to code first. Miguel Shaban, our Virginia operating partner, walks it himself, and we have already closed cash purchases nearby in Chesterfield and Henrico.
Local market
The Petersburg market at a glance.
$225K
Median sale price
75
Typical days on market
Source: Redfin, May 2026
A traditional Petersburg sale averages 75 days on the market - a Nobu Holdings cash sale closes in as little as 14, in any condition.
Local coverage
Neighborhoods we buy in
Local questions
Selling a house in Petersburg - questions we hear
My Petersburg house is vacant and on the city's radar for blight. Will you buy it?
Yes. Vacant and blighted houses are common purchases for us in Petersburg. The city requires vacant buildings to be registered and maintained, and code enforcement escalates quickly. We buy as-is for cash, take on the registration and the repairs, and close so the burden stops being yours.
I owe back taxes on a Petersburg property. Can you still buy it?
Usually, yes. Many Petersburg homes carry delinquent taxes or city liens, and if taxes go unpaid long enough the property can head to auction. The title company clears what is owed against the property at closing out of the sale proceeds.
Do you buy inherited homes in Old Towne or Poplar Lawn that need everything?
Yes. Petersburg's historic neighborhoods are full of inherited Federal and Victorian homes with failing systems and years of neglect. We buy them as-is for cash, so you avoid both the repair bill and the exterior-review steps a renovation in a historic area can require.
Can you buy my occupied Petersburg rental?
Yes. We buy tenant-occupied Petersburg rentals, and the lease transfers to us at closing under Virginia's landlord-tenant law. Whether the tenant is paying or long behind, you are out of the property and the management once we settle.
Are there fees, and how fast can you close?
No commissions and no service fees, and we cover standard closing costs. Most Petersburg sales close in 14 to 21 days on the date you choose, and the cash offer we show, built from local comps, is the amount you keep.
Your net sheet
What you actually walk away with in Virginia.
Move the slider to your home's value and compare the two paths: the fees a traditional sale takes out, and one clean cash offer from Nobu Holdings.
We buy as-is, so our cash offer reflects the home's current condition. Your real number comes after a quick local walkthrough.
Selling the traditional way
- Sale price$400,000
- Agent fees– $24,000
- Staging & prep– $4,000
- Concessions– $8,000
- Title / closing– $8,000
- Carrying costs– $4,000
- Repairs– $9,000
- Mortgage payoff– $0
You walk away with
$343,000
~60–90 days · not guaranteed
Selling to Nobu Holdings
- Cash offer$364,000
- Agent fees$0
- Staging & prep$0
- Concessions$0
- Title / closing$0
- Carrying costs$0
- Repairs$0
- Mortgage payoff– $0
You walk away with
$364,000
as fast as 14 days · guaranteed
With Nobu Holdings you keep $21,000 more, and you skip $57,000 in fees, repairs, and months of waiting.
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Ready for your Petersburg cash offer?
Drop your address - Miguel Shaban will take it from there, usually within 60 seconds.