Glendale, Queens, NY
Sell your house fast in Glendale, Queens.
We buy Glendale houses as is for cash. Brick and frame rows off Myrtle and Cooper, 1950s capes by Liberty Park, two families with a tenant, estates held since the 1960s, any condition.
$910,000
Median Glendale sale
51 days
Avg market days
+2.2%
YoY change
About the area
Why Glendale sellers call us.
Glendale is the long, narrow neighborhood squeezed between Forest Park on the north and the cemetery belt on the south, with Myrtle Avenue running down the middle of it and Cooper Avenue along the bottom. There is no subway. The M train stops at Fresh Pond Road on the Ridgewood line, the Q54 and Q55 buses run Myrtle, and the freight tracks of the old Montauk branch cut through the middle, which is why the blocks on either side of them feel like separate towns. The houses are 1920s brick and frame rows on the west end toward Ridgewood, detached wood frames with a driveway in the middle, and 1950s capes and ranches in Liberty Park near Woodhaven Boulevard. Most were bought once, by a German or Italian family, and a great many are still owned by their children.
The typical single family home value in Glendale is around $910,000, up roughly 2.2% over the past year, with houses averaging about 51 days on the market.
The frame house that has not been touched since 1968
Glendale’s wood frame houses are the ones that worry a financed buyer. Asbestos siding over the original clapboard, a slate or three layer asphalt roof, knob and tube on the second floor, a cellar with a dirt floor section, and an oil tank in the yard from before the gas line came down the block. A lender’s inspector lists all of it, the appraiser knocks the value, and the buyer asks for a credit the seller cannot give. We buy frame houses in Glendale exactly as they stand, price the whole list in the offer, and do the work after closing.
Estates, and heirs on Long Island
The most common Glendale call is a parent’s house. Bought in 1961, paid off in 1985, kept exactly the way it was. The children moved to Nassau, Suffolk or New Jersey decades ago and now have a Queens Surrogate’s Court file, a house full of sixty years of belongings, and no weekends to deal with either. Agents want the house emptied and painted before photos. We do not. We buy it full, we wait for the letters from Surrogate’s Court, and the heirs sign from wherever they live.
Two families along Myrtle with a tenant who stopped paying
The two and three family rows near Myrtle Avenue and down toward Cooper are mostly owned by people who live in one unit and rent the other, or who moved to Long Island years ago and kept the building for the income. A tenant who stopped paying, a rent set in 2016, a Housing Court case adjourned four times, and a roof and boiler due the same winter. Queens Housing Court takes most of a year. We buy occupied buildings with the case open, at the rent actually coming in, and the eviction becomes ours at closing.
The cellar apartment the appraiser will write up
Thousands of Glendale cellars have a kitchen, a bathroom and a tenant. A cellar, more than half below the curb, is almost never a legal apartment in New York City no matter the finish. The appraiser notes it, the lender wants it removed or documented, and a financed deal dies in its fourth week. We buy the house as its legal units, price the cellar as a cellar, and the tenant and any Department of Buildings file come with the house to us.
Where listing still wins in Glendale
A renovated brick house on a quiet block in Liberty Park or a detached frame with a new kitchen and a driveway should be listed, and we will say so. Buyers priced out of Ridgewood and Forest Hills have been finding Glendale for years. Where a cash sale wins is the estate full of belongings, the frame house with the four page inspection, the two family with a tenant in court, the cellar apartment, or the owner with a closing date in Florida that cannot move.
What we buy in Glendale
Attached and semi attached brick rows, detached wood frame houses, 1950s capes and ranches in Liberty Park, two and three families along Myrtle and Cooper, estates in any condition, houses with a cellar apartment, an oil tank or an open Department of Buildings violation, houses in foreclosure, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.
Three Glendales: the west end, the middle, and Liberty Park
Glendale is not one market. The west end, from Fresh Pond Road to about 70th Street, is attached brick and frame rows that are really the continuation of Ridgewood, priced on the block and the condition of the row. The middle, between the freight tracks and Cooper Avenue, is detached frame houses with a driveway and a yard, the ones that sell in a weekend when they are renovated and sit for months when they are not. Liberty Park, up by Woodhaven Boulevard and Forest Park, is 1950s brick capes and ranches on wider lots, the newest housing in the neighborhood and the most expensive. We buy on all three and the offer is built from sales on your side of the tracks, not from an average of the whole zip code, which Glendale shares with Ridgewood.
What the three have in common is that almost nothing was built after 1960, and a house that has not been renovated has the same list no matter the block: the original service panel, galvanized water lines, a flat or shallow roof with layers on it, a cellar that took water once, and a garage built for a 1950 car. A lender’s inspector writes it all down. We read the same list and price it, and the house closes anyway.
Water bills, violations, and the liens the city attaches
New York City attaches water and sewer charges to the house, not the owner, and a two family where a tenant has run the water for years can carry a Department of Environmental Protection balance in the thousands with a lien sale behind it. Environmental Control Board fines for a sidewalk, a dumpster or a missing boiler inspection attach the same way. Add an open Department of Buildings permit from a 1980s cellar job that was never closed out, and a title company has a page of items to clear before any lender will fund. We buy with all of it open. The balances come out of the purchase price at closing, itemized on the offer before you sign, and the open permits and violations become ours to close after the deed records.
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Recent Glendale transaction
A 1925 Frame Two Family Off Myrtle Avenue, One Tenant Paying and One Not, Sold by a Daughter in Massapequa Three Months After the Funeral
Her father bought the frame two family on a side street off Myrtle Avenue in 1971 and lived on the first floor until he died in March 2025 at ninety one. The second floor tenant had been there since 2009 at a rent that had not changed since 2017. A nephew had moved into the finished cellar in 2022 and stopped paying anything after the funeral. The daughter lived in Massapequa, worked full time, and was the executor.
She met an agent in May. The agent walked the house and told her it would show badly: asbestos siding, a roof with three layers, a boiler from 1988, the nephew in the cellar, and every room full. The agent wanted the cellar emptied, the second floor tenant's rent raised to market first, and the house cleaned out before photos. The cleanout alone was quoted at nine thousand dollars. She did not have the weekends or the stomach for the nephew.
Nick York met her at the house on a Saturday in June and walked all three levels with her, including the cellar with the nephew in it. The offer was written on the house as it was: one paying tenant at the 2017 rent, one cellar occupant paying nothing, siding and roof and boiler all due, and a house full of fifty four years. The number was written out with the math on one page. He explained that the nephew would be our problem after closing, not hers, and that the second floor tenant would keep her apartment.
The Surrogate's Court letters came in July. We closed in August at a title company on Queens Boulevard. She took her father's photographs and his tools the weekend before. The rest stayed. She said the thing that mattered was that she never had to have the conversation with the nephew.
Common reasons Glendale sellers call us.
A parent's frame house on 71st Street, untouched since the 1960s
Heirs in Nassau, Suffolk and Florida, a Queens Surrogate's Court file, sixty years of belongings. We buy it full, wait for the letters, and close with everyone signing remotely.
An inspection report four pages long
Asbestos siding, knob and tube, a three layer roof, a dirt floor section in the cellar. We price the whole list and buy the house as it stands.
An oil tank in the yard
No lender funds until it is pulled and tested, and a bad result costs tens of thousands. We buy with the tank in the ground and remove it after closing.
A cellar apartment the appraiser will flag
A finished cellar with a kitchen and a tenant is not a legal unit in New York City. We buy the house as its legal units and take the cellar and the tenant as they are.
A tenant who stopped paying
Queens Housing Court takes most of a year. We buy occupied two and three families with the case open, at the rent actually coming in, and the eviction becomes ours on closing day.
A Department of Buildings violation or a vacate order
A complaint, an inspection, a violation and a vacate order end a financed sale. We buy with the violations open and clear them ourselves after closing.
A mortgage in default
Queens foreclosures move slowly through Supreme Court, and that delay is the opening. A cash closing before the referee's sale pays the lender and keeps the remaining equity yours.
A closing date in Florida that cannot move
The new place closes on a date and the Glendale house has to be sold by then. We pick the closing date around yours. Two to three weeks is typical.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Glendale.
How do I sell my house fast in Glendale?
Call (516) 964-7222 or send the address through the form on this page. We look at the house, give you a written cash offer within 24 hours with the reasoning shown, and you pick the closing date. Two to three weeks is typical.
Do you buy wood frame houses, or only brick?
Both. Glendale has more frame houses than most of Queens and they are most of what we buy here. Asbestos siding, old wiring and a layered roof are normal on a 1920s frame and do not change the process.
Should I list my Glendale house instead?
Often, yes, and we will tell you. A renovated house in Liberty Park with no deadline usually nets more listed. A cash sale wins when the house is an estate full of belongings, the inspection will run four pages, a tenant is in Housing Court, there is a cellar apartment, or you need a closing by a date.
There is an oil tank in the yard. Will you still buy?
Yes. We buy with the tank in the ground and untested, price it with the soil unknown, and take on the removal and any cleanup after closing. A tank is one of the most common reasons financed Glendale sales fall apart.
I inherited a house in Glendale and live on Long Island. How does this work?
We coordinate with the Queens Surrogate's Court paperwork and your estate attorney, a neighbor or relative lets us in for the walkthrough, and closing documents are signed remotely. The house stays full until the day we close, and you take what you want first.
My two family has a tenant who has not paid in months. Do I evict first?
No. We buy occupied Glendale buildings with a Housing Court case in progress. The offer is based on the rent actually being paid, the case transfers to us, and you are out of it at closing.
The cellar has an apartment and a tenant. Is that a problem?
Not for us. No lender will count a cellar apartment, so we price the house as its legal units. The cellar tenant stays or goes on terms worked out with you, and any Department of Buildings file comes to us at closing.
What does it cost me to sell to EZ Home Buyers?
Nothing out of pocket. No commission, no fees, and we pay our own closing costs. The only deductions are your mortgage payoff and any liens, water bills or back taxes that must be satisfied, itemized in the offer before you sign.
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