Corona, Queens, NY
Sell your house fast in Corona, Queens.
We buy Corona houses as is for cash. Frame two and three families off Roosevelt and Junction, houses with a cellar apartment, estates held since the 1960s, houses in foreclosure, any condition.
$1,035,000
Typical Corona home value
77 days
Avg market days
+6.5%
YoY change
Typical value from the Zillow Home Value Index for single family homes, September 2026. Days on market from Realtor.com. These are market figures, not an EZ Home Buyers offer.
About the area
Why Corona sellers call us.
Corona is the neighborhood between Jackson Heights and Flushing Meadows, under the 7 train at Junction Boulevard and 103rd Street, and it has been an immigrant neighborhood since Italian families built the frame houses in the 1910s and 1920s. Louis Armstrong lived on 107th Street. The Lemon Ice King is still on 52nd Avenue. Today Corona is the center of Mexican, Ecuadorian and Dominican Queens, with Roosevelt Avenue as the main street and one of the densest populations in the city. The houses are wood frame two and three families on narrow lots, brick two families on the North Corona side streets, and nearly every one of them has more households inside than it was built for.
The typical home value in Corona is around $1,035,000, up roughly 6.5% over the past year, with houses averaging about 77 days on the market.
The three family that is seven households
Corona has the most subdivided houses in Queens. A legal two or three family with a kitchen on every floor, two families in the cellar, a tenant in the attic and a certificate of occupancy that says otherwise is normal here. The appraiser counts the legal units. The lender wants the rest removed or documented. The buyer’s attorney pulls the Department of Buildings file and finds a vacate order from an inspection after a complaint. The financed deal ends in week four. We buy the house as its legal units, price the rest as what they are, and the tenants and the city’s file come with the house to us at closing.
Foreclosures, filed in Queens Supreme Court
Corona was hit hard in 2008, with subprime mortgages written on subdivided houses whose rent rolls were never what the lender was told. Many of those loans are still on the books, modified once or twice, in default again, and somewhere on the Queens Supreme Court calendar. New York foreclosure is a court process and Queens is one of the slowest counties in the country. That delay is the opening. A house in default with a referee’s sale somewhere ahead still has equity in it, and a cash closing before the sale date pays the lender, stops the interest and the legal fees, and keeps the rest yours.
Estates, and the family that bought from the Italians
The most common Corona call is a parent’s house bought in 1972 or 1988 from the Italian family that built it, paid off, and held as the family grew into every floor. Now it is a Queens Surrogate’s Court file with heirs in New Jersey, Florida and Puebla or Cuenca, tenants on two floors, and forty years of belongings. Agents want it emptied, the units reduced and the facade cleaned first. We buy it as it stands, we wait for the letters, and the heirs sign at a consulate or with a notary wherever they are.
The frame house under the siding, and the fire
Corona’s frame houses are a century old, under vinyl or aluminum siding, with the original framing and often the original wiring under a panel that was never sized for seven kitchens. Overloaded wiring in a subdivided frame house is why Corona has more house fires than most of Queens, and a house with fire damage on one floor and tenants on the others is a sale no lender will touch. We buy frame houses as they stand, fire damage and all, price the whole list in the offer, and do the work after closing.
Where listing still wins in Corona
A renovated brick two family with legal units and market rate tenants near Junction Boulevard should be listed, and we will say so. Where a cash sale wins is the subdivided house with the vacate order, the mortgage in default, the estate with heirs on two continents, the frame house with fire damage or the four page inspection, or the owner with a date that cannot move.
What we buy in Corona
Frame and brick two and three families, houses with extra units, cellar or attic apartments, fire damaged houses, mixed use buildings on Roosevelt Avenue, Junction Boulevard, 103rd Street and Northern Boulevard with a store below, houses with an open Department of Buildings violation, houses in foreclosure, estates in any condition, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.
North Corona, the 7 train blocks, and the park side
Corona is priced by the train and the fire history. The blocks near the 7 at Junction and 103rd Street are the densest and the most subdivided, and a house there is priced on seven households and a Department of Buildings file. North Corona, between Northern Boulevard and the Grand Central, is brick two families on wider lots that sell to families. The streets along Flushing Meadows and the park are the quietest and the most expensive. We buy on all of them and the offer is built from sales on your blocks, with the comparable addresses on the sheet.
What every block shares is the frame house. Almost everything in Corona that is not a 1990s rebuild was built before 1930 of wood, and under the vinyl siding is the original clapboard, the original framing, and in most cases the original wiring under a panel that was never sized for seven kitchens. A house that has been maintained is fine. One that has had the same owner since 1972 has a list a lender’s inspector fills four pages with. We read the same list and price it, and the house closes anyway.
Water bills, violations, and the liens the city attaches
Corona houses with four or five households on a single water meter can owe DEP tens of thousands with a lien sale pending, and the Department of Buildings file usually has a violation for the cellar or the attic. ECB fines attach to the house the same way. A lender will not fund with any of it open. We buy with all of it open, pay the city from the price at closing, and the violations are ours to clear.
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Many Corona homeowners also ask us how to sell a water damaged house, sell a fire damaged house, or sell a house when downsizing.
How a sale like this goes in Corona
A 1918 Frame Three Family Off 104th Street, Seven Households, a 2006 Mortgage in Default and a Referee's Sale Set for October, Sold by a Widow Nine Weeks Before the Date
She and her husband came from Puebla in 1989 and bought the frame three family off 104th Street in 2004 from the daughter of the Italian family that built it, with a subprime mortgage written on a rent roll that assumed every floor was legal. They refinanced in 2006. Over twenty years the house filled: three legal units, two families in the cellar, a nephew in the attic, seven households. Her husband died in 2022. The loan went into default in 2023, the foreclosure went through two years of settlement conferences in Queens Supreme Court, and a referee's sale was set for October 2025. The cellar had a vacate order from 2021.
She listed it in May 2025 with an agent from the block. The first buyer's lender declined when the appraiser counted three units and the rent roll did not support the loan. The second buyer's attorney found the vacate order and the foreclosure and asked for both cleared before closing. The listing expired in July with the sale date eleven weeks away.
Nick York walked the house in early August with her and her oldest son, all three floors, the cellar with two families in it, the attic. The offer was written on the house as it was: three legal units, seven households, a cellar vacate order that would be cleared by us, knob and tube under the siding, a 1994 boiler, a roof with layers, and a payoff figure from the lender's attorney that grew every day. The number was written out with the math on one page, with lines for relocating the cellar families on terms worked out with them. It paid the lender in full, paid the water bill and the Environmental Control Board fines, and left her with equity.
We closed in September at a title company in Forest Hills, with the referee's sale cancelled by the lender's attorney the same afternoon. The three legal tenants kept their apartments. The cellar families moved with our help and a payment. She moved to her daughter's house in Elmont the following week. She said the thing that mattered was that someone had finally explained the calendar to her.
Illustrative. Based on the situations we buy in across Corona. A composite, not a single transaction, with details changed.
Common reasons Corona sellers call us.
A three family that is seven households, with a vacate order
The appraiser counts three. We buy the house as its legal units, price the rest as what they are, and take the tenants and the city file as they are.
A 2006 mortgage in default with a referee's sale somewhere ahead
Queens foreclosures move slowly, and that delay is the opening. A cash closing before the sale pays the lender and keeps the remaining equity yours.
A parent's house bought in 1972, heirs in New Jersey and Cuenca
A Queens Surrogate's Court file, tenants on two floors, forty years of belongings. We buy it as it stands and close with everyone signing at a consulate or remotely.
Fire damage on the second floor, tenants on the first and in the cellar
No lender touches it. We buy the house with the damage, the tenants and the insurance claim as they are, and rebuild it ourselves.
Knob and tube under the siding and a panel never sized for seven kitchens
A frame house from 1915 with its original everything. We price the whole list and buy the house as it stands.
A tenant who stopped paying
Queens Housing Court takes most of a year. We buy occupied houses with the case open, at the rent actually coming in, and the eviction becomes ours on closing day.
A building on Roosevelt Avenue with a store below
No residential lender and no commercial one at this size. We buy on the income that exists, lease or no lease, and the tenants stay.
A tenant since 2005 at a rent that never moved
A subdivided house can be stabilized without the owner knowing. We buy on the rents actually being paid, and the tenant stays with their lease.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Corona.
How do I sell my house fast in Corona?
Call (516) 964-7222 or send the address. We walk the house, tenants and all, write a number within 24 hours with the Corona sales on it, and close at a Queens title company about 14 days out. A Department of Buildings file rides along.
The house has more units than the certificate of occupancy allows. Will you still buy?
Yes. Most Corona houses do. We buy the house as its legal units, price the extra units as what they are, and the tenants and any Department of Buildings file, including a vacate order, come with the house to us at closing.
I am behind on the mortgage. Is it too late?
Almost never in Queens. The foreclosure calendar is slow and a sale date can be months or years away. Call before the referee's sale is scheduled if you can, but we have closed with days left. The payoff goes to the lender at closing and the rest of the equity is yours.
There was a fire on one floor and the tenants are still in the rest. Will you buy?
Yes. We buy fire damaged houses with tenants in place regularly in Corona. The insurance claim, the Department of Buildings file and the repair are priced into the offer, and all three become ours after closing.
The heirs are in two different countries. Can this still close?
Yes. Each heir signs at a United States consulate or with a local notary and an apostille, our title company coordinates the documents, and the closing happens here. It adds a few weeks, not months.
Should I list my Corona house instead?
Often, yes, and we will tell you. A renovated two family with legal units and no deadline usually nets more listed. A cash sale wins when the units do not match the certificate of occupancy, the mortgage is in default, the house is an estate with heirs abroad, there is fire damage, a tenant is in court, or you need a closing by a date.
My tenants are rent stabilized. Does that change anything?
It changes what a lender will do, not what we do. Stabilized tenants stay with their leases and their legal rents, the house is priced on that income, and nobody is asked to leave.
What does it cost me to sell to EZ Home Buyers?
Nothing. The Corona sheet lists what the title company must pay from the price: your mortgage, any city balance and the transfer taxes. No broker, no fee, our closing costs are ours.