Sell your house fast in Johnston, RI
I Buy Rhode Island Houses pays cash for Johnston houses as they are, on sewer or septic, east or west of I-295. We're a Rhode Island family business, buying houses here since 1975.
Get a cash offer on your house
Start with the property address. The whole thing takes about a minute.
There's no obligation, and you don't pay a commission when you sell to us.
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We buy houses in Johnston
I Buy Rhode Island Houses buys houses in Johnston for cash, in any condition, and we can close in as little as 7 days or whenever suits you. Johnston splits at I-295. As of the town's 2007 comprehensive plan, public sewer reached only the east side, and much of the west ran on septic systems and private wells.
We buy single families on septic, mill houses in Thornton and Simmonsville, and houses along the Pocasset River that have taken on water. You skip the repairs, the clean-out and the showings, and you don't pay a commission. JB Jackson and his wife, Robin Adams, run I Buy Rhode Island Houses as a family business. We're lifelong Rhode Islanders rather than a franchise, we buy with our own money, and we've bought more than 3,000 homes in the state since 1975.
Johnston villages and neighborhoods we buy in
Johnston at a glance
- County
- Providence County
- Probate court
- Johnston Probate Court: hearings at the Municipal Court, filings at Town Hall
- Residential tax rate (FY2026)
- $15.62 per $1,000
- Public sewer (2007 plan)
- East of I-295; septic across much of the west
- Single-family detached homes
- 72.5%
- Median year built
- 1968
Sources: RI Division of Municipal Finance, U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024 (units in structure, year built), Town of Johnston, Johnston Comprehensive Community Plan (2007).
Houses we see in Johnston
Nearly three-quarters of Johnston's homes are single-family houses (72.5%), and 75.9% are lived in by their owners. I Buy Rhode Island Houses buys them whatever their age or shape, along with the older mill houses in the villages.
- Much of Johnston west of I-295 relies on septic. The town set up a Wastewater Management District in 2001, and as of that year, Cherry Hill Road, Neutaconkanut Hill and the area around Oak Swamp and Slack Reservoir had the most septic repairs and failures. If a house still has a cesspool, Rhode Island requires it to be replaced or tied into sewer within 12 months after a sale, and the buyer can take care of that after closing. Selling a house as-is.
- Johnston's flood risk comes mostly from the Pocasset River. In March 2010, Belfield Drive sat under as much as five feet of water and the fire department evacuated residents by boat. It flooded again in November 2018, and the town's top flood priority after 2010 was a voluntary buyout of 16 homes along the river. Selling a water-damaged house.
- The town grew up around mills in Thornton, Simmonsville, Morgan Mills, Hughesdale, Manton and Graniteville, while the West End stayed farmland. The state's 1976 survey found most of the stuccoed-stone worker houses James Simmons built for his 1820s cotton mill still standing, along with blocks of early 1900s double mill houses off Plainfield Street in Thornton.
- Johnston's water service splits at I-295 as well. The 2007 plan put a public water system on the east side and the Johnston Water District in parts of the west, with private wells across the rest. A house on a well sells to us the same way as one on town water.
How selling your Johnston house to us works
Tell us about the house
Fill out the form or call I Buy Rhode Island Houses at 401-267-1400. Tell us the address, whether the house is on sewer or septic, and what needs fixing.
Get a written cash offer
Once we've seen the house, you'll get our cash offer in writing, and you can take it or leave it. The price will be under a full retail sale, since you get speed and certainty in place of repairs and showings. If the house is in good condition and time is on your side, an agent may get you more.
Close on your date
You pick the closing date, as soon as 7 days out. We close at a Rhode Island title company or attorney's office and cover the closing costs, and a cesspool replacement, if the house needs one, becomes our job after closing. How selling to us works.
What Johnston sellers call us about
Selling a house in Johnston: common questions
Do you buy in every part of Johnston?
Yes. I Buy Rhode Island Houses buys in every village the town's plan names, including Graniteville, Manton, Cherry Hill, Belknap, Thornton, Simmonsville, Hughesdale and Morgan Mills, and out through the West End.
My Johnston house is on septic. Does that change anything?
Not for a sale to I Buy Rhode Island Houses. A working septic system sells like any other house, and Johnston's approved septic plan encourages inspections without requiring them. Rhode Island's sale rule covers cesspools rather than septic systems: a cesspool has to be replaced or the house tied into sewer within 12 months after a sale. You don't have to do it before you sell, and the law doesn't say whether the buyer or the seller pays, so it's part of the deal.
My house is near the Pocasset River and has flooded. Will you still buy it?
Yes. FEMA has 110 flood insurance claims on record in Johnston since 1979, 22 of them from the March 2010 nor'easter, and after a December 2023 storm, the town and the state's emergency management agency collected flood damage reports from homeowners. Johnston isn't part of FEMA's Community Rating System, so flood policies here don't get its discount. I Buy Rhode Island Houses buys flooded and flood-prone houses as they are.
I inherited a house in Johnston. Can I sell before probate is done?
Often, yes. The Johnston Probate Court sits at 8:15 a.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Johnston Municipal Court, 1600 Atwood Avenue, but filings and records go through the Town Clerk at Town Hall, 1385 Hartford Avenue, and the town asks that papers be mailed there. If the will gives the executor a power of sale, the house can usually be sold without separate court permission. If not, the executor asks the court for a license to sell. I Buy Rhode Island Houses can make an offer before that and close once the executor can sign. How selling a house in probate works.
Can I sell my Johnston house if I've moved out of Rhode Island?
Yes. I Buy Rhode Island Houses can work through most of the sale with you by phone and email, and the closing office can arrange for you to sign where you live. Rhode Island has the buyer withhold 6% of a nonresident seller's net proceeds for the Division of Taxation, credited toward any state tax you owe on the sale, and you can file to base it on your actual gain at least 20 days before closing.
We also buy houses near Johnston
Want an offer on your Johnston house?
Fill out the form at the top of the page or call I Buy Rhode Island Houses at 401-267-1400. We'll come out to the house wherever it is in town, east or west of I-295.
