We Buy Houses in Queens

Queens is the borough we buy in most. Of the houses we have purchased over the past 24 months, roughly forty percent have been in Queens neighborhoods. Bayside, Forest Hills, Little Neck, Douglaston, and the wider northeast Queens corridor are where we see the most consistent activity.

The reasons sellers in Queens contact us tend to repeat. Inherited properties from parents who bought in the 1960s and 1970s and never moved. Tired landlords with two-family homes in Astoria or Sunnyside who have run out of patience with rent stabilization. Pre-foreclosure sales where the homeowner needs to close before an auction date locked in by the bank. Houses that haven’t been updated since the original purchase and would need fifty thousand or more to bring to MLS condition.

We close on Queens properties in seven to fourteen days. We close occupied. We buy two-to-four family houses, single-family detached, Co-ops are the one property type we do not buy, because board approval defeats the point of a fast, certain sale. We do not need you to clean out. We do not need you to make repairs. We will not ask you to do anything other than sign documents and pick a closing date.

Nick York walks every Queens property himself before we make an offer. If the property is occupied, we coordinate the inspection at the tenant’s convenience. If you are out of state and inherited the property, we can handle the entire transaction by mail and overnight courier.

Below are the Queens neighborhoods we have active offers in right now.

What houses are selling for right now

These figures come from current market data for the neighborhoods we buy in, updated quarterly. Condition drives everything: a house that needs work trades well below these numbers on the open market, which is exactly the gap our cash offers are built for.

Selling fast in Queens, whatever the situation

As cash home buyers in Queens, we are built for the sales that traditional listings handle badly. Queens sellers come to us with the full range of hard situations: a co-op board that makes selling miserable (we buy houses and condos, not co-ops, and we will tell you straight if yours is the one property type we cannot help with), a parent’s house in probate while the family is spread across three boroughs, an inherited house full of forty years of belongings, tenants who stopped paying in a two family, or a foreclosure clock that started ticking after a job loss. Queens houses also carry the classic outer-borough paperwork problems, open permits from decades-old alterations and code violations that scare financed buyers away. None of that stops a cash sale.

Common questions from sellers here

How fast can you close on a Queens house?

Seven to fourteen days is typical once we make an offer, because we pay cash and no lender is involved. If you need longer, the closing date moves to fit your timeline, not ours.

Do you buy co-ops in Queens?

No. Co-ops are the one property type we do not buy, because board approval defeats the purpose of a fast certain sale. Houses, two to four families, condos, and mixed use buildings are all fair game.

My Queens house has an illegal basement apartment. Is that a problem?

It is common and it is not a problem for us. Unpermitted units routinely kill financed deals over certificate of occupancy issues. We buy the house as it stands and handle the city afterward.