Granbury, TX
We buy houses in Granbury — cash offers for Hood County and Lake Granbury.
A Pecan Plantation home whose owner just moved into assisted living in Fort Worth. A DeCordova Bend Estates lake house bought as a 2021 weekend property that is no longer getting used. An Indian Harbor manufactured home no conventional lender will finance. A Rancho Brazos rebuild that never finished after the 2013 tornado. These are the situations we built Diamond to handle, here in Granbury and across all ten of its named lake communities.
Who we buy from in Granbury
The seven situations driving most Granbury cash sales
Granbury is not a generic North Texas market. It is the county seat of Hood County, 38 miles southwest of Fort Worth, anchored by 103 miles of Lake Granbury shoreline and five-time winner of USA Today's "Best Historic Small Town in America." Median age in the city is 51.5 — roughly 32.6 percent of residents are 65 or older, nearly three times the national rate — and Hood County's population has grown from 61,598 to 70,501 since 2020. The combination of retiree concentration plus DFW second-home spillover plus post-pandemic remote-work retrenchment is driving a steady pipeline of cash sales that the conventional MLS process is not designed for.
Pecan Plantation aging-in-place estate sales
Pecan Plantation is the largest gated community in Hood County — 4,200 acres, 3,200 homesites, 6,236 residents, and roughly 45 percent of those residents are 65 or older. Original owners from the 1970s-80s development era are moving through end-of-life now. PPOA's $4,645 transfer fee plus $155/mo dues plus architectural-control restrictions make heirs in DFW especially motivated to sell fast rather than carry costs.
Lake-house second-home cashouts
Post-pandemic remote-work retrenchment is triggering a wave of second-home liquidations in Bentwater, Catalina Bay, The Peninsula, Mallard Pointe, and across the Lake Granbury waterfront. Owners who bought a weekend home in 2020-2021 are now facing carrying cost plus property tax plus HOA dues without the lifestyle utility.
DeCordova / Indian Harbor lakefront inheritance
Lake-frontage parcels with assigned slips, dock permits, and HOA/marina-access easements are harder to sell through conventional MLS than typical homes. Heirs without local knowledge of DeCordova Bend Country Club bylaws or Indian Harbor patrol logistics benefit from a buyer who already knows the structure.
Retiree downsize-to-DFW
As Pecan Plantation and DeCordova residents reach the point where the 12-mile drive to Granbury (let alone 45 minutes to Fort Worth) becomes a problem, many move to Fort Worth-area assisted living. They want to sell fast without renovating an aging gated-community home that needs updates to compete on the MLS.
Post-2013 tornado damaged stock in Rancho Brazos
The May 15, 2013 EF-4 tornado damaged or destroyed 97 of 110 homes in Rancho Brazos, including all 60 Habitat for Humanity homes in the neighborhood. Rebuilt structures are now 12+ years old and showing wear. Some owners never fully rebuilt. We buy what is there.
Mobile and manufactured homes
Roughly 19 percent of the 76048 housing stock is mobile or manufactured, with a mean value around $100K. Indian Harbor in particular carries a meaningful manufactured-home subsegment. Conventional lenders rarely touch these — we are one of the few buyers in the market.
Tax catch-up on appreciated lake-house values
Hood County's 0.96 percent effective rate is below the US median, but on an appreciated Pecan Plantation or Harbor Lakes parcel the math still pinches a fixed-income retiree. We pay arrears at closing out of the proceeds.
Granbury housing market
What your Granbury home is actually worth right now
Sources do not perfectly agree, because "median value," "median list," and "median sale" measure different things on different schedules — and Granbury's geography makes the picture especially noisy. The city limits exclude Pecan Plantation, DeCordova Bend Estates, Indian Harbor, and most of the highest-value lake stock, which sits in unincorporated Hood County. Here is what we see across the public data, labeled by geography so you can verify before deciding.
- Median home value (city, 2024)
- $386,917
- ZIP 76048 median (2024)
- $246K–$271K
- Zillow ZHVI (2026)
- $368,168
- Redfin median sale (Jul 2025)
- $350,000
- Days to pending (Zillow)
- 22
- Owner-occupied (76048)
- 73%
City-Data Granbury city basis.
Broader 76048 area, west of the lake.
+0.4% YoY — effectively flat.
−11.9% YoY; cooling from 2022 peak.
Faster than peer rural-TX markets.
High-ownership market; retiree-heavy.
The gap between the city median ($386K) and the broader 76048 area ($246K-$271K) is the most important number on this page. The gated lake communities — Pecan Plantation, Harbor Lakes, DeCordova Bend Estates — sit above the city median, while older rural 76048 stock sits below it. A Lake Granbury waterfront home with a dock and a slip prices nothing like a small interior-Granbury bungalow, and the average-the-numbers approach taken by out-of-town iBuyers misses both ends. Our offer reflects the specific subdivision, the specific HOA, the specific lot.
If you are facing foreclosure
How Texas non-judicial foreclosure works in Hood County
Texas is the fastest foreclosure state in the country. If you have received a Notice of Default or Notice of Sale, the law gives you a specific, short window to act.
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Total minimum timeline
Texas non-judicial foreclosure can complete in as few as 41 days from the first Notice of Default. That includes a 20-day right-to-reinstate period and a 21-day Notice of Sale.
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First Tuesday of the month
Foreclosure sales in Hood County are held the first Tuesday of every month, between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., at the south door of the Hood County Courthouse — the 1890-1891 French Second Empire limestone building on the Historic Granbury Square at 100 E. Pearl Street.
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Posted three places
Texas law requires the Notice of Sale to be posted on the courthouse door, filed with the Hood County Clerk at 1200 W. Pearl Street, and published online. If your property has been posted, that record is public.
A cash buyer can close before a posted sale date if the contract is signed with enough runway for the title work. If your auction date is less than 14 days out, call before you fill out a form — the timeline matters more than the offer details. You can also reach our team about pre-foreclosure options through our broader situations page.
Inherited a Granbury home?
How Hood County probate works — and the three Texas shortcuts you may qualify for
Probate in Texas is filed with the Hood County Clerk's Office at 1200 W. Pearl Street, Granbury, TX 76048. The Hood County Court hears uncontested probate matters. Depending on the size of the estate and whether there is a valid will, you may qualify for a faster path than full dependent administration.
Independent Administration
Texas's default when there is a valid will. Court-supervised but with minimal ongoing court intervention — executors can sell real estate without additional court orders in most cases. The most common path we close on.
Muniment of Title
A Texas-specific shortcut when the only transfer needed is real property and the estate has no significant debt beyond the homestead. Faster, cheaper, no full administration.
Small Estate Affidavit
For estates under $75,000 in personal property plus the homestead transfer when there is no will. The fastest path when it fits — Diamond can close as soon as the affidavit is approved by the court.
We are not your attorney, and this is not legal advice. Texas probate has real teeth and the right path depends on the will, the heirs, and the estate's debts. If you do not have counsel, we can refer you to a Hood County probate attorney who works with out-of-state heirs.
Where we buy
The ten Lake Granbury communities we cover — and the rural Hood County we drive to
Granbury is a neighborhood market, not a single-address market. The lake's 103 miles of shoreline are divided into named subdivisions with very different HOA structures, demographic skews, and amenity stacks — and a home in Pecan Plantation does not price like a home in Indian Harbor even when they are five miles apart. We know each community by name. Here is who we buy from in each.
In-depth community guides
Several Lake Granbury communities have enough of their own dynamics — HOA structure, transfer fees, gated-access logistics, and marina or boat-slip transfer — to warrant a dedicated guide of their own:
The ten named Lake Granbury communities
- Pecan Plantation — 4,200-acre peninsula community 12 miles southeast of Granbury; ~3,200 homesites, ~6,236 residents, ~45% age 65+. Fully gated with two 24/7 staffed entrances. Amenities include the Nutcracker Golf Club, a private airpark with two runways, equestrian facilities, marina, and PPOA's $4,645 transfer fee plus $155/mo dues. Hood County's largest gated community.
- Harbor Lakes — 400-acre master plan inside Granbury city limits with 500+ semi-custom and custom homes at build-out. Anchored by the Harbor Lakes Golf Club (18 holes, over 7,000 yards). Fully gated with private security. Canal homes, marina slips, golf-course frontage; townhomes through grand waterfront estates.
- DeCordova Bend Estates — ~855 acres on the east side of the lake; developed alongside Lake Granbury's late-1960s impoundment. Two golf courses, full clubhouse, marina, ~$167 monthly HOA via DeCordova Bend Country Club. Gated with two guarded entrances and active security patrols. Retiree-heavy.
- Indian Harbor — late-1960s development east of SH-144, ~2,320 residents, 24/7 gated with dedicated patrols. HOA dues around $20/mo per community references — lower than DeCordova or Pecan because of the simpler amenity stack. Meaningful manufactured-home subsegment alongside the waterfront/canal stock.
- Bentwater on Lake Granbury — east-side custom-home community ~7 miles from downtown Granbury; gated, two main entrances (Hideaway Bay Court, Meander Road). Mix of waterfront, water-view, and small-acreage parcels including equestrian properties. Most non-waterfront lots come with assigned community boat slips.
- The Peninsula on Lake Granbury — 1998-founded gated community, incorporated into the city of Stockton Bend in 2004. Larger lots, deeper-water access, panoramic lake views; most homes have private docks or slips.
- Comanche Cove — 2,364 lots on Lake Granbury's southern shore. Owners-Association model with broad lake access — large park, swimming pool, playgrounds, clubhouse, multiple boat ramps. Not fully gated.
- Comanche Harbor — sister community to Comanche Cove on the southern shore; community parks and lake access.
- Catalina Bay — gated, lakefront, minutes from the Historic Granbury Square. Well-maintained and walkable interior streets.
- Mallard Pointe — homes wrap natural inlets and coves with a community marina (assigned slips, trailer storage, boat launch). Lakeside community park for non-waterfront homeowners; mix of waterfront, coved-out, and hilltop lots with stair-step lake access.
Other Granbury subdivisions and rural Hood County
We also buy across the rest of Granbury and the unincorporated stretches of Hood County that templated competitors skip:
- The Hills of Granbury — elevated-view community.
- Abe's Landing — waterfront subdivision.
- Canyon Creek — newer subdivision.
- Rancho Brazos — the May 15, 2013 EF-4 tornado damaged or destroyed 97 of 110 homes here; rebuilt stock is now 12+ years old.
- Acton — unincorporated CDP east of Granbury; older lake/rural stock; Acton Elementary and Acton Middle anchor the area.
- Oak Trail Shores — smaller lake community CDP.
- Stockton Bend — incorporated community absorbing The Peninsula.
And these Hood County and adjacent communities: Tolar · Lipan · Cresson · Paluxy · Brazos Bend · Thorp Spring · Mambrino · Glen Rose · Cleburne · Stephenville · Mineral Wells · Aledo · Weatherford.
Hood County is bordered by Parker to the north, Johnson to the east, Somervell to the south (Glen Rose and Comanche Peak Nuclear), Erath to the west, and Palo Pinto to the northwest. We work in all of them.
Any condition
The conditions other buyers will not touch
Granbury's mix of gated retiree communities, 1969-vintage lakefront stock, 2013 tornado-rebuild inventory, and a meaningful manufactured-home subsegment produces a steady supply of houses the conventional MLS process is not built for. We underwrite to the work, not around it.
2013 tornado-damaged stock
Rancho Brazos rebuilds now 12+ years old; some structures never fully recovered. Storm-claim disputes welcome.
Mobile and manufactured
~19% of 76048 stock; Indian Harbor has a meaningful subsegment. TDHCA Statement of Ownership handled at closing.
Foundation issues
North Texas clay soil; pier-and-beam on older lake stock; slab cracks in 1970s gated-community ranches.
Hoarder houses
Take what you want; leave the rest. We handle the cleanout. No photos required; no public listing.
Tax-delinquent
Paid at closing out of proceeds. You do not need to catch the Hood CAD bill up before talking to us.
Tenant-occupied
Lease in place; short-term-rental bookings; tenant disputes. We close around the booking calendar.
Lakefront with dock / slip complications
Assigned slip rights, dock permits, marina-access easements. Conventional MLS struggles; we handle at title.
Probate-pending
We can sign in advance and close once the Hood County court grants the order.
HOA-restricted gated stock
PPOA, Harbor Lakes HOA, DeCordova Bend Country Club, Indian Harbor — we know the architectural-control and transfer mechanics.
How it works in Granbury
From your first call to a closed deal in Hood County
Diamond is 38 miles from Granbury. We drive in. We do not charge for the trip, we do not assign your contract to another buyer, and we close at a Hood County title company on the timeline you pick — whether the home is inside a 24/7-gated community or on an unrestricted rural parcel out near Tolar.
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Tell us about the property
Address, situation, timeline. Form on this page or a phone call — both reach the same person. We do not pass leads to anyone else.
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We pull the comps, check the HOA, drive the property
Hood CAD records, subdivision-specific comparable sales (a Harbor Lakes comp is not a Comanche Cove comp), HOA transfer requirements, and a real walkthrough — not a Zillow estimate.
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Written offer with the math shown
Comparable sales, our repair budget at investor-retail rates, HOA transfer fees built in, and the margin we need. Take it to an agent and a contractor and compare. The offer does not change after inspection.
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Close at title in 9 days, or whenever you pick
Texas standard purchase agreement. Title company opens escrow. Tax arrears, HOA transfer fees, mobile-home titles, dock permits, and probate orders handled at the closing table. You get a wire or a check.
Diamond's broader process is documented on the how it works page, and our typical answers to seller questions live in the FAQ.
Granbury FAQ
The questions Hood County sellers ask first
How fast can you close on a Granbury home?
Nine days from a signed contract is normal once the title company at Hood County has clear title. We can close faster when the seller is ready. There is no financing contingency on our side, so the timeline is set by title work, not a lender.
Do you buy in Pecan Plantation?
Yes. Pecan Plantation is roughly 4,200 acres on a peninsula with 3,200 homesites, around 6,236 residents per the 2020 Census, and roughly 45 percent of residents are 65 or older — meaning a structural rolling estate pipeline. We are familiar with the PPOA $4,645 transfer fee, the $155 monthly dues, the 24/7 gated entrance logistics, and the Nutcracker Golf Club / airpark / equestrian amenity stack. Heirs handling a parent's estate do not need to explain the community to us.
What if my Lake Granbury home has a dock or boat slip?
Lake-frontage parcels with assigned slips, dock permits, or boat-ramp easements are exactly the kind of file conventional MLS buyers and lenders struggle to underwrite. We have closed on waterfront homes in DeCordova Bend Estates, Indian Harbor, Bentwater, Mallard Pointe, and The Peninsula — including parcels with PPOA marina slips and Comanche Cove community-park boat rights. Tell us the slip number; we handle it at title.
Do you buy mobile and manufactured homes in Hood County?
Yes. Roughly 19 percent of the 76048 housing stock is mobile or manufactured, with a mean value around $100K — and Indian Harbor carries a meaningful manufactured-home subsegment most operators ignore. Conventional buyers and lenders rarely touch these. We buy singles and doubles, with or without the land, including older units on rural Hood County parcels.
What if I am behind on Hood County property taxes?
Hood County's effective property-tax rate is 0.96 percent — slightly below the US median — but on an appreciated Pecan Plantation or DeCordova lake-house value, that math still pinches. We routinely pay tax arrears at closing out of the proceeds. You do not need to bring money to the table.
I inherited a Granbury home and the heirs are out of state. Can you still buy it?
Yes. Probate routes through the Hood County Clerk at 1200 W. Pearl Street, with uncontested matters heard by the Hood County Court. We work with executors handling Independent Administration, Muniment of Title, or Small Estate Affidavits from anywhere in the country and can coordinate signatures across multiple heirs in different states.
Do you buy storm-damaged homes from the 2013 tornado area?
Yes. The May 15, 2013 EF-4 tornado destroyed or damaged 97 of 110 homes in Rancho Brazos, including all 60 Habitat for Humanity homes in the neighborhood. Twelve years on, many rebuilt structures are showing wear and some owners never fully rebuilt. We buy those properties as-is.
Where is the Hood County Courthouse, and why does it matter?
The 1890–1891 French Second Empire limestone courthouse sits on the Historic Granbury Square at 100 E. Pearl Street — designed by W.C. Dodson, the same architect responsible for the Bonham courthouse, and a Texas Downtown Association award winner for restoration. Foreclosure auctions in Hood County happen on the south door the first Tuesday of every month between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. If you have a posted sale date, that is where it would happen.
Do you buy in Tolar, Lipan, Cresson, Acton, and the rural parts of Hood County?
Yes. We also buy in DeCordova, Stockton Bend, Oak Trail Shores, Paluxy, Brazos Bend, Thorp Spring, Mambrino, and the unincorporated stretches of Hood County. Diamond drives in from the DFW area — Granbury is about 38 miles from Fort Worth — and we do not charge for the trip.
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