Selling a building in West Virginia
We buy apartment buildings, warehouses and small industrial businesses across West Virginia, between $100,000 and $2,000,000 — including the ones that have been sitting a long time.
Why West Virginia
- Average home value statewide — roughly 46% below the national figure
$182,704
Average home value statewide — roughly 46% below the national figure
Zillow Home Value Index, West Virginia, June 2026
- Rent growth in Charleston over the past year, to $1,387 a month
+9.6%
Rent growth in Charleston over the past year, to $1,387 a month
RentCafe average rent data, Charleston, May 2026
- Population change since 2020 — the risk we price in, not around
−1.5%
Population change since 2020 — the risk we price in, not around
U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, Vintage 2025 estimates
- The entry price is the whole point. Average property values statewide sit around $182,700, close to half the national figure. A building here costs what a down payment costs elsewhere.
- Big industry is landing in small towns. A $4 billion private investment was announced in Marshall County on the Ohio River in 2026, and Nucor's multi-billion-dollar Mason County steel mill is finishing this year. Local reporting already describes a housing shortage around these plants.
- The eastern panhandle is a different market again. Berkeley County drew a $50 million defence-manufacturing project in July 2026, on top of earlier metals investment — that is Washington-corridor growth arriving in a low-cost county.
- Rents are moving where jobs are. Charleston rents rose 9.6% in the past year. Morgantown still averages about $861 a month, well under the national $1,625 — cheap to buy into, but a ceiling worth respecting.
- Honest risk: the state's population has fallen 1.5% since 2020 and continues to shrink outside the panhandle and Morgantown. That is why we buy at low prices with our own money instead of betting on rent growth, and why we care more about the roof than the forecast.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts West Virginia, Vintage 2025 estimates; Zillow Home Value Index, West Virginia, June 2026; RentCafe average rent, Charleston, May 2026; Apartments.com rental market trends, Morgantown, 2025; Office of the Governor of West Virginia press releases, 2026; West Virginia Division of Economic Development.
What we buy in West Virginia
Older apartment buildings and main street blocks with living space above the storefront. Warehouses, shops and yards left behind by industry along the Ohio river. Service and repair businesses where the owner is ready to stop and there is nobody in line.
A lot of West Virginia property gets priced as if nobody wants it. We do, when the bones are good.
Buildings nobody else will look at
Vacant for years, boarded windows, an inherited property four states away from the person who inherited it, back taxes owing. None of that ends the conversation. What ends it is a price that assumes the work is already done, or ground that needs an environmental clean-up.
West Virginia questions
- Which parts of West Virginia do you buy in?
- The whole state, with most attention on the northern panhandle and the Ohio river towns — Wheeling, Weirton, Parkersburg, Huntington — plus Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg.
- Do you buy old commercial buildings in small West Virginia towns?
- Yes, if the structure and roof are sound and the price reflects the work needed. Main street buildings with apartments above a shop are a type we like.
- Will you buy a building with unpaid property taxes?
- Usually yes. Back taxes get settled at closing out of the price. Tell us about them up front and it changes nothing about our answer.
- How much do you pay?
- Between $100,000 and $2,000,000, priced on the building's condition today rather than what it would be worth after repairs.
Send us the address and whatever you know about it. We will tell you honestly whether it is something we would buy.
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