Sell your house fast in Hillside, NJ.

Hillside is the Union County town that wraps around the south side of Newark and Irvington, and its housing runs from one to the other. The blocks along the Newark and Irvington lines, off Liberty Avenue and Hillside Avenue, have the two family frames and brick colonials of the 1920s, built when the Bristol-Myers plant and the Newark factories were hiring. The center of town and the streets off Conant Street and North Broad Street have the capes and colonials of the 1940s and 1950s on fifty foot lots. The Jewish and Italian families who filled the town for two generations moved on in the 1970s and 1980s, and the Black, Haitian, Jamaican, and Latino families who bought the houses from them are now the ones inheriting capes that have not been touched since 1975, with a basement unit nobody registered and a Hillside tax bill that is among the highest in Union County. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and Hillside sellers call us because a two family on the Newark line with a tenant who stopped paying and a cited basement, or an estate cape off Conant Street with an oil tank and two years of tax certificates, is a hard sale to a bank and a normal one to us. For background on the township, see this Hillside community profile.

Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and Hillside is a market he prices on the tax bill and the rent roll before anything else. A cape in the center of town with a legal layout is a different sale than a two family on the Irvington line with one paying tenant and a cited basement, and both are different from a house near Route 22 that an estate has been carrying since the pandemic. If you are thinking about selling your house in Hillside, you deserve a number that reflects which of those you own, with the math shown. No agent fees, no repair demands, no financing that collapses at the appraisal.

Basement units, oil tanks, and why financed buyers walk

A Hillside house is usually more than the township thinks it is. A basement apartment for a relative or a tenant, an attic room with a kitchenette, a garage that was converted: income on paper, a violation in the township’s file, and invisible to a financed buyer’s appraiser. Then the lender looks at a house with a fuse panel, a boiler from the 1980s, a roof that has been layered rather than replaced, an underground oil tank the family forgot was there, and a rent roll with a tenant who has not paid since the pandemic, and the loan gets declined. The house sits, the seller is told to legalize or remove the apartment and pull the tank, and the taxes keep coming.

We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and the apartment, the tank, the violations, and the rent roll are line items in our offer instead of reasons the deal dies. Our guide to selling a house with code violations explains how the township’s system works.

The Hillside sellers we hear from most

Estates come first. Hillside houses were bought by families who stayed forty and fifty years, and when a parent passes the children are often in Union, in Georgia or Florida, or back in Haiti or Jamaica with a Union County probate to manage from a distance and a house full of a lifetime of belongings. We work with executors and heirs constantly, we can wait out the Surrogate paperwork, and we buy inherited houses exactly as they sit. If the heirs live out of state or abroad, we walk through what New Jersey withholds from nonresident sellers at closing; see our guide to the New Jersey exit tax.

Landlords are second. A two family on the Newark line with a basement unit is three rents on paper and a full time job in practice, and Union County landlord tenant court has a backlog that turns a nonpaying tenant into a year long project. When a landlord is done, we buy the building with tenants in place, at the actual rent roll, and handle everything after closing ourselves.

Owners buried by the tax bill are third. Hillside’s tax rate is one of the highest in the county, and a few missed quarters become tax sale certificates with interest that compounds at up to 18 percent. We buy houses carrying certificates and clear them from the proceeds at closing.

Liens, violations, and the paperwork side of Hillside

Hillside sells unpaid taxes and water as tax sale certificates, and the liens compound quickly. Add open code violations, an unregistered rental, a basement apartment that never had a permit, an underground oil tank, and the township’s certificate of occupancy inspection required before any sale, and a traditional sale becomes a maze. We deal with tax liens and title problems as part of the purchase. Our attorneys run the municipal searches and payoff letters every week, and our offer accounts for what has to be satisfied at closing. If you are behind on the mortgage as well, New Jersey’s court process is slow enough that selling during pre-foreclosure is almost always still an option; our guide to the New Jersey sheriff sale timeline walks through every stage.

What Hillside houses are actually selling for

The typical single family home value in Hillside is around $520,000, up roughly 0.6% over the past year, with houses averaging about 31 days on the market. Buyers priced out of Union and Maplewood have discovered the center of town, and a renovated cape with a new kitchen sells quickly. But the headline number assumes a house that can pass an appraisal and a township inspection. A cape with an oil tank, a fuse panel, and a 1975 kitchen, or a two family with a cited basement and a tenant who stopped paying, does not get the median. It gets price cuts, a financed buyer who disappears at the inspection, and months of carrying costs on a Hillside tax bill. We price the house for what it is, show you the math at the kitchen table, and leave the decision with you.

What we buy in Hillside

Capes, colonials, and split levels in the center of town, two to four family frame and brick houses along the Newark and Irvington lines, houses with basement units legal or not, mixed use buildings on Liberty Avenue and North Broad Street with a store below, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. Most of what we see in Hillside is the two family on the Newark line or the estate cape off Conant Street, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.

How to reach us

Hillside is where our Union and Essex County coverage meet. Across the line we buy houses in Irvington NJ and in Newark, to the south we can help you sell your house fast in Elizabeth, and past that we buy in Roselle. Every Union County town we buy in is listed on our we buy houses in Union County page, and our full New Jersey coverage is on the we buy houses in New Jersey page.

Our Hillside number holds for a week from the walkthrough. Show it to your attorney, to the township inspector if you like, or to the agent who said the tank had to come out first, and decide once you have heard everyone.

EZ Home Buyers is a family-owned company based in Great Neck, NY 11021. We have been operating across the NY metro area since 2000, and Hillside is part of our core New Jersey coverage. Call (516) 964-7222 or send the address through the form. We come out to Hillside within a day or two, the offer is in your inbox within 24 hours of the visit, and your attorney sees it before anything is signed.

Looking just beyond Hillside? You can also sell your house fast in Irvington NJ or sell a house fast in Newark NJ, and you can read about how we buy houses in Elizabeth NJ.

Many Hillside homeowners also ask us how to sell an inherited home in Hillside NJ, sell a house during divorce, or sell a rental property as a tired landlord.