What a cash offer on a Farmington Hills house actually works out to
Almost every investor offer starts from the same arithmetic: take what the house would be worth repaired, keep 70% of it to cover their margin and holding costs, then subtract the repair bill. In Farmington Hills, where the median sale price is $370,852 as of June 2026, that 70% starting point is $259,596 before a single repair comes off. An iBuyer starts far higher, near $333,767, but still deducts repairs and then charges roughly 5% of the price as a service fee.
Illustrative offers on a $370,852 Farmington Hills home, by how much work it needs. Repair figures are round scenarios, not quotes for your house.| If the house needs | Investor / We Buy Houses | iBuyer, after fee | Listing, after costs and repairs |
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| Cosmetic onlypaint, flooring, clean-out — about $10,000 | $249,596 | $307,578 | $335,410 |
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| Moderatekitchen or bath, roof, mechanicals — about $30,000 | $229,596 | $288,578 | $315,410 |
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| Heavystructural, fire or water damage — about $60,000 | $199,596 | $260,078 | $285,410 |
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The listing column is where the comparison gets honest. Selling a $370,852 Farmington Hills home on the open market costs roughly $22,251 in agent commission at 6% plus about $3,191 in Michigan transfer tax, which lands you near $345,410 before you have fixed anything or paid a month of holding costs. That is the number a cash offer should be measured against — not the $370,852 headline. Commission is negotiable and some transfer tax exemptions apply, so treat both as starting points.
Farmington Hills homes go under contract in a median of 8 days, so you have genuine leverage here: a buyer who lowballs a sound house can be walked away from, and with 52% of sales closing above asking, a move-in-ready house is being competed over and should not be sold at an investor discount without a reason, and there are about 233 homes on the market in Farmington Hills right now. Use that as your read on how hard to push back on a first offer.
One more thing worth knowing before you accept anything: the typical Farmington Hills home has risen from about $320,875 five years ago to $395,176, a gain of 23.2%. Sellers regularly underestimate their equity, and a percentage-of-value offer is calculated on today's number, not what you remember the house being worth.
If your Farmington Hills house is worth more or less than the median
The median is only a starting point, and the gap between offer types widens with price. These are the same three calculations run at Farmington Hills values above and below $370,852, assuming the moderate $30,000 repair scenario throughout.
| If it would sell for | Investor | iBuyer, after fee | Listing, after costs and repairs | Gap, investor vs listing |
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| $260,00070% of median | $152,000 | $193,800 | $212,164 | $60,164 |
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| $371,000the Farmington Hills median | $229,700 | $288,705 | $315,549 | $85,849 |
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| $519,000140% of median | $333,300 | $415,245 | $453,397 | $120,097 |
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Notice the last column. On lower-value Farmington Hills houses the gap between an investor offer and a completed listing is small enough that the certainty, the skipped repairs and the chosen closing date can genuinely be worth more than the difference. Higher up the range that gap grows quickly, which is where it pays to make buyers compete rather than accept the first number.
How to read the Farmington Hills market before you accept
- A Farmington Hills listing goes under contract in a median of 8 days. If a buyer tells you the house will sit, the local data does not support it — ask why their offer assumes otherwise.
- 52% of Farmington Hills sales close above asking. Sound houses here have real competition behind them, so an investor discount should be earned by condition or timing rather than assumed.
- About 233 homes are for sale in Farmington Hills, with roughly 114 added last month. The more competing supply, the more a guaranteed closing date is worth to you.
- Farmington Hills values are down 3.4% year over year. Holding out for a better market is a bet, and meanwhile you carry taxes, insurance and upkeep on a house you have decided to sell.
- Whatever the numbers say, hold two or three offers at once. A single Farmington Hills offer, however reasonable it sounds, gives you nothing to measure it against.
Farmington Hills market figures from Zillow Research public data, June 2026. Offer percentages are the industry conventions described above, applied to that figure — they are illustrative, not an offer.