Sell your Missouri land for cash

No, Missouri has no state real estate transfer tax. Since 2010, the Missouri Constitution bars the state, counties and other local governments from imposing any new tax on real estate sales or transfers. The county recorder of deeds still charges recording fees. Ask your recorder of deeds or title company about fees and any local charges. Source: Missouri Constitution, Art. X, Sec. 25, and RSMo 59.310.

Penalties and fees are added, and the county can sell the land at a tax sale. Taxes unpaid on January 1 are delinquent, and state law adds a penalty of 18% of each year's delinquency. If you pay before a sale, the penalty is capped at 2% a month, and most counties add a 9% collection fee. Sale proceedings must start within 3 years after delinquency, and sales are held on the fourth Monday in August. Some counties use a court foreclosure instead, where vacant property assessed as residential can lose the right to redeem at judgment. Source: RSMo 140.010, 140.100, 52.290, 140.150, 140.160 and 141.520.

Usually yes, and you must redeem before you sell or transfer the land. After a first or second offering sale, you can redeem for 1 year, and then until the buyer gets a collector's deed. The buyer must give you at least 90 days' notice first, and loses its lien without a recorded deed within 18 months of the sale. Redeeming costs the bid and sale costs, plus up to 10% yearly interest, and 8% on later taxes the buyer paid. After a third offering sale you have only 90 days, and sales after that allow no redemption. Source: RSMo 140.340, 140.405, 140.410 and 140.250.

Yes, for a few specific known problems. If you received a report saying the land is or was contaminated with radioactive or hazardous material, you must disclose that in writing. Failing to do so is a class A misdemeanor. You must also disclose in writing any known methamphetamine production on the parcel. Ask a Missouri real estate attorney whether other disclosures apply to your parcel. Source: RSMo 442.055 and 442.606.

Generally not on a capital gain, if you are an individual. For tax years starting in 2025 or later, Missouri subtracts 100% of income an individual reports as a capital gain for federal tax purposes. The Department of Revenue says this includes gains on real estate. Corporations qualify only after Missouri's top individual rate falls to 4.5% or lower. If you live out of state, ask a tax professional how this applies to you. Source: RSMo 143.121.3(14) and Missouri Department of Revenue news release, August 26, 2025.

Yes. You do not need to live in Missouri to sell Missouri land to us. Liberty Acres buys land anywhere in the US and closes through a title company. We pay back taxes and all closing costs, and there are no agents and no commissions.