We Buy Houses in Hudson County, NJ

Hudson County is the densest county in New Jersey and the one where the difference between what a house is and what the town’s paperwork says it is matters most. The attached two, three, and four family frames of Union City, West New York, and North Bergen on top of the Palisades. The rowhouses and brownstones of Hoboken and downtown Jersey City, carved into apartments over a century. The brick two families of Bayonne and Greenville. The old frame three families of Kearny and Harrison across the Hackensack. Almost every one of them has a unit the certificate of occupancy does not show, and most of the older ones have tenants under one of the strictest rent control ordinances in the state.

That is why financed buyers fail here. An appraiser will not count an unregistered unit, a lender will not carry a rent controlled rent roll, and a flood zone along the Hackensack, the Meadowlands, or western Hoboken adds an insurance quote that ends the deal. We have been buying in Hudson County since 2000, we buy with cash, and the extra unit, the rent roll, the violations, and the flood zone are line items in our offer instead of reasons the sale dies.

What we see most in Hudson County

Landlords with rent controlled tenants. Union City, West New York, Hoboken, North Bergen, and Jersey City all have rent control, and a building with long term tenants paying far below market is worth much more empty than occupied with no legal way to make it empty. We buy occupied buildings at the actual rent roll. Our guide to selling with tenants in place covers how.

Estates with heirs out of state. The families who bought these buildings from the 1960s on are passing them to children in Bergen County, Florida, and back in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, and the Philippines. We work through the Hudson County Surrogate with the estate attorney, buy the building as it sits, and handle the nonresident withholding at closing.

Tax sale certificates and liens. Hudson County towns sell unpaid taxes and water as certificates that compound at up to 18 percent. We redeem them from the proceeds at closing. Our guide to selling with tax liens explains the timeline, and the New Jersey sheriff sale timeline covers what happens if the mortgage is behind too.

Where we buy in Hudson County

Every town below has its own page with the housing stock, the situations we see there, current home values, and answers to the questions sellers in that town ask most. If your town is not listed yet, call anyway. We buy across the whole county.

What Hudson County houses are selling for right now

Typical single family home values and days on market by town, from public Zillow and Realtor.com data, refreshed monthly. 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.