We Buy Houses in Bergen County, NJ

Bergen County is the wealthiest county we buy in on the New Jersey side, and the houses we buy there are the ones the wealth passed by. The capes and colonials of Bergenfield, Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park, and Teaneck built in the 1950s for the families who commuted to the city, bought once and never sold, now inherited by children in Morris County, Florida, and the Carolinas with an oil tank in the yard and a kitchen from 1962. The two family frames of Garfield, Lodi, and the south end of Hackensack along the Passaic and Saddle rivers, which flood. The older houses of Englewood’s Fourth Ward and downtown Hackensack, cut into apartments decades ago.

Bergen County tax bills are large, and a Bergen estate that has been open for a year has usually spent a meaningful part of the inheritance carrying the house. A financed buyer needs the tank pulled, the roof addressed, the flood insurance quoted, and the certificate of occupancy issued, and every one of those takes months the estate does not have. We have been buying in Bergen 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 Bergen County

Estates. Heirs in three states, a house full of sixty years of belongings, and a Surrogate file that nobody has touched. We buy inherited houses as they sit, clear every room, and handle the nonresident withholding at closing.

Oil tanks. Almost every 1950s house in the county had oil heat, and the tank is still in the ground under half of them. Lenders will not close until it is pulled and tested. We buy with the tank as it is, unknown soil and all.

Flood history. Garfield, Lodi, Elmwood Park, and the low parts of Hackensack and Teaneck took water in Irene and Ida. We price the flood risk honestly and carry the insurance ourselves after closing. See selling a house with water damage.

Where we buy in Bergen County

Town pages for Hackensack, Teaneck, Englewood, Bergenfield, Garfield, Lodi, Elmwood Park, and Fair Lawn are being added now and will appear below as they go live. If your town is not listed yet, call anyway. We buy across the whole county.

What Bergen 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.