We Buy Houses in Union County, NJ

Union County is where the industrial towns along the turnpike and the railroad meet the commuter suburbs, and the houses we buy sit on the industrial side of that line. The two and three family frames of Elizabeth, the capes and colonials of Linden, Roselle, and Hillside built for the refinery and factory workers, the old Victorians of Rahway and Plainfield cut into apartments decades ago. The families who bought them from the 1960s and 1970s on, Italian and Polish first, then Black, Haitian, Colombian, Portuguese, and Salvadoran, are now passing them to children who live somewhere else.

Union County tax rates are among the highest in New Jersey against modest values, which means a few missed quarters become tax sale certificates fast, and Plainfield, Elizabeth, Hillside, and Roselle produce a steady stream of certificate foreclosures. Add an oil tank the family forgot, a basement unit the city has cited, and a tenant who stopped paying, and a financed buyer walks. We have been buying in Union County since 2000, we buy with cash, and every one of those problems is a line item in our offer instead of a reason the deal dies.

What we see most in Union County

Tax sale certificates and lien foreclosures. We buy houses carrying certificates, redeem them from the proceeds at closing, and can close before a certificate foreclosure reaches judgment. Our guide to selling with tax liens covers the deadlines.

Estates with oil tanks. Linden, Roselle, and Hillside capes from the 1950s almost all had oil heat, and lenders will not close until a tank is pulled and tested. We buy with the tank as it is, unknown soil and all. See selling an inherited house.

Carved up Victorians. Rahway and Plainfield have old houses with three or six units and a certificate of occupancy for one. We price the house on its actual rent roll and legal status and handle the city after closing. See selling a house with code violations.

Where we buy in Union 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. Union Township, Cranford, and Roselle Park pages are coming. If your town is not listed yet, call anyway. We buy across the whole county.

What Union 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.