We Buy Houses in the Bronx

The Bronx is the borough where the gap between what a house is worth and what a bank will lend on it runs widest, and that gap is exactly where we work. Wakefield, Williamsbridge, and Eastchester in the north are block after block of attached and semi attached brick two and three families built between the wars. Soundview, Castle Hill, and Parkchester in the south have the postwar frame houses and the small multifamilies that filled in around the projects. Throggs Neck, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, and Country Club on the east side are the Bronx that looks like Long Island, detached houses on their own lots, held by the same families for fifty years. Riverdale is its own market and mostly co-ops, which we do not buy.

The reasons Bronx sellers contact us repeat across all of those neighborhoods. A parent’s house in Bronx County Surrogate’s Court while the children are in Westchester or the Carolinas. A two family in Wakefield with a basement apartment that was never legal and a tenant who stopped paying. A foreclosure that started after a job loss and has been grinding through Bronx Supreme Court for three years. A house that has not been touched since 1975 and would need sixty thousand dollars to reach listing condition. And, more than anywhere else in the city outside southeast Queens, owners who have been approached by someone offering to “help” with paperwork that turned out to be a deed. We close at a New York attorney’s office with your own lawyer present, every time, and we never ask for a signature before that.

We close on Bronx properties in two to four weeks. We close occupied. We buy one to four family houses, mixed use buildings with a store below, condos, and vacant lots. Co-ops are the one property type we do not buy. We do not need you to clean out, make repairs, legalize the basement, or resolve the violations first.

Nick York walks every Bronx property himself before we make an offer. If the property is occupied, we coordinate the visit at the tenant’s convenience. If you inherited the house and live out of state, we handle the entire transaction remotely with your estate attorney.

Below are the Bronx 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 the Bronx, whatever the situation

As cash home buyers in the Bronx, we are built for the sales that traditional listings handle badly. Bronx sellers come to us with a parent’s house in probate, an inherited house full of fifty years of belongings, tenants who stopped paying in a two family with a basement unit, a foreclosure clock that has been running for years, or a stack of Department of Buildings and HPD violations that scare every financed buyer away. The Bronx also has the city’s most aggressive tax lien sale, and we buy houses carrying tax liens and pay them from the proceeds at closing. None of that stops a cash sale.

Bronx selling guides

Before you take any offer, read who pays the closing costs in a New York cash sale and our guide to selling a house with open DOB, ECB, and HPD violations. If the house belonged to a parent, what an executor can and cannot do covers the estate side, landlords should see selling a rental with tenants in place, and if there is an auction date on the calendar, how to stop a foreclosure auction in 11 days is the one to read first.

Common questions from sellers here

How fast can you close on a Bronx house?

Two to four weeks is typical once we make an offer, because we pay cash and no lender is involved. New York closings happen at an attorney’s office with your own lawyer present. If you need longer, the closing date moves to fit your timeline, not ours.

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

It is common and it is not a problem for us. Unpermitted units kill financed deals over certificate of occupancy issues and they are a line item for us. We buy the house as it stands, tenant included, and handle the city afterward.

Someone offered to help me with my mortgage if I signed some papers. Should I?

No. Deed theft is a real and growing problem in the Bronx. Never sign a deed, a power of attorney, or any transfer document outside of a closing at a New York attorney’s office with your own attorney present. Our offers are in writing, hold for seven days, and can be shown to anyone. If a buyer wants a signature before a closing, walk away and call us.

Do you buy co-ops in the Bronx?

No. Co-ops, including Parkchester and most of Riverdale, 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.