Sell your car in Virginia Beach: running, flooded or on Navy orders
Describe the car online and an instant cash offer comes back in minutes. Free pickup comes to your home, wherever you live in the city. If you're stationed at Oceana, Dam Neck or Little Creek-Fort Story, pickup can be planned around your orders.
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From the offer to the last city bill
- 1. Ask for the offer. Answer a few questions about the car, including any rust or water damage. The instant offer is firm and based on what you describe. Take it, or hold it while you decide.
- 2. Set the pickup. Pickup comes to your address and is usually scheduled within days of accepting.
- 3. Close out the city car tax. After DMV has your sale report, contact the Commissioner of the Revenue's Personal Property Taxpayers division (757-385-4487, PersProp@vbgov.com). That office updates your personal property record, and the tax is prorated under City Ordinance 35-6.1. If a refund is due, the City Treasurer says the refund process takes about four weeks.
Where we pick up around Virginia Beach
Pickup is at your place anywhere in Virginia Beach, from the Oceanfront (23451) and Great Neck to Kempsville (23464) and south to Sandbridge. JEB Little Creek-Fort Story runs over the city line into Norfolk, and the same pickup reaches Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton and Newport News.
City Hall, in person. The city's DMV Select is in Building 1 at 2401 Courthouse Drive. It takes walk-ins weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for vehicle-related transactions, but it does not issue driver's licenses. The Commissioner of the Revenue also keeps a drop box for documents at the end of the driveway loop in front of City Hall.
Three routes for a car on Navy orders
Naval Air Station Oceana, its Dam Neck Annex and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story all sit in Virginia Beach. On orders, the car either goes with you, waits for you or gets sold, and each route has local rules.
Shipping. Overseas orders usually include shipping for one car, if the overseas installation allows it. Virginia has one vehicle processing center, the Norfolk VPC, and it's in Chesapeake, at 1215 Executive Blvd. It's open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., except federal holidays, and you must be signed in by 3 p.m.
Storing. Oceana and Little Creek each run MWR storage lots; their rules are in the first question further down.
Selling on base. Navy MWR's resale lot is at Naval Station Norfolk, 314 10th Ave. It costs $25 for two weeks. You sign the car up there in person, it must carry current registration and insurance, and you have to be able to move it on 24 hours' notice. Before you book a VPC date, read how a sale before a PCS move works.
Cash for your car in Virginia Beach
The city sums up its inoperable vehicle ordinance, City Code 16-40, this way: vehicles must be in operating condition, must have either a valid state license plate or a valid inspection sticker, and cannot be dismantled or wrecked. If yours no longer fits that description, it can still be sold for cash. An expired inspection sticker doesn't stop an offer, and selling a junk car has its own page.
A car like that can't go on the Navy resale lot either, because its rules say the car must be drivable. When you're after cash for junk cars in Virginia Beach, the offer covers the car in the shape it's in, and pickup comes to your place.
Is an engine or transmission problem keeping your car off the Navy lot? Read selling a car with a blown head gasket or selling a car with a bad transmission; for crash or flood damage, see selling a damaged car for what buyers check, and selling a car the insurer totaled for what happens to the title after a total loss.
What Virginia Beach charges on a car in 2026
- •Cars, light trucks and motorcycles are taxed at $4.00 per $100 of assessed value, and the assessment uses a used-car guide's January loan value (Commissioner of the Revenue)
- •For 2026, state-funded relief takes 42.7% off the tax on the first $20,000 of a qualifying personal vehicle's value (Commissioner of the Revenue)
- •Bills for cars already registered usually go out in May, due June 5; a car bought after March 31 usually gets a prorated bill later in the year (Rates & Dates)
- •Active-duty members whose legal residence is outside Virginia are exempt from this tax and the local vehicle registration fee once the Commissioner has a current LES; exemptions are re-checked every year (Military Owned & Leased Vehicles)
Asked by Virginia Beach sellers
Can I store my car at Oceana or Little Creek instead of selling it?
Oceana's MWR storage lots take personal vehicles on contracts of 6 to 12 months, paid in full up front, and a stored car must keep current tags, registration, insurance and a valid state inspection decal (757-433-2875). At Little Creek, the storage lot at 1101 Okinawa Road keeps a separate lot for deploying service members' cars; its listed hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (757-462-7140).
My title is lost or damaged. Which Virginia Beach office replaces it?
You can replace it online or at a DMV customer service center, where DMV asks for your registration card and your driver's license or ID. Virginia Beach has two centers: Buckner, at 3551 Buckner Blvd., and Hilltop, at 1712 Donna Drive. Both are open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon, and you can book an appointment, reserve a spot or walk in.
I'm deploying and leaving a car at home. Where can I check flooding in the city?
Checked in September 2026: the city's flood monitoring page maps the water-level, rainfall and groundwater sensors the city runs with its partners. It also links ten years of high-water records from sites the city monitors with the U.S. Geological Survey, and warns that sensor data isn't reviewed in real time. A car that took on water still qualifies for an offer, and the flood-damaged car guide explains what a water history changes.
If I trade the car in at a dealer instead, does the city find out?
Not always. The Commissioner of the Revenue says most dealers don't notify DMV of the sale and that reporting the disposal date is the owner's job, so the car-tax step further down applies to a trade-in too.
The DMV side of a sale works the same anywhere in Virginia, and our Virginia page walks through it.