We Buy Houses in New Jersey

Northern and central New Jersey is the fourth leg of our market. Bergen County (Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck, Paramus, Ridgewood, Fair Lawn), Hudson County (Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, West New York), Essex County (Newark, East Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield), and the rest of the metro corridor.

The New Jersey seller profile we see most often is someone who inherited a property from a parent who lived in the same house for forty or fifty years. Cape Cods and split-levels from the 1950s and 60s that need full kitchens, full baths, new HVAC, new electrical, often new roofs. Houses where the cost of preparing the property for an MLS listing would exceed thirty or forty thousand dollars and the seller would rather take a clean cash offer.

We buy in any condition. We close in seven to fourteen days. We pay every closing cost on the seller’s side. We work with title companies across Bergen, Hudson, Essex, and the surrounding counties. If you are an out-of-state heir who has never seen the property, we will handle the entire transaction by mail and we will send you a closing statement before signing so you know exactly what to expect.

We do not charge wholesaling fees. We do not list your property on an investor network looking for assignment fees. We close on the property ourselves and pay you cash at closing.

Below are the New Jersey neighborhoods we are most active in right now. If your town is not listed, submit your address, we cover the entire NY metro and almost certainly buy in your area too.

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 New Jersey, whatever the situation

As cash home buyers in New Jersey, we are built for the sales that traditional listings handle badly. North Jersey’s housing stock is old and its paperwork is older, and that combination is where cash buying earns its keep. The century old two family and three family frames in Newark and Paterson fail financed inspections routinely. Municipal liens from unpaid taxes and water bills become tax sale certificates that compound fast. Tenant protections make regaining a unit slow and costly for a small landlord ready to be done with difficult tenants. And New Jersey runs foreclosure through the courts, one of the slowest processes in the country, which cuts both ways: painful to be inside, but it means an owner who is behind almost always still has time to sell, protect their credit, and keep the equity a sheriff sale would erase. Estates are the other big driver, from Bayonne rowhouses held by one family for sixty years to Jersey City two families split among heirs in three states.

Common questions from sellers here

How fast can you close on a New Jersey house?

Seven to fourteen days is typical because we pay cash. Estate sales run on the Surrogate’s timeline and we close when the paperwork is ready.

What is the New Jersey exit tax I keep hearing about?

It is not an extra tax, it is an estimated income tax withholding taken at closing when the seller lives out of state. We walk every out of state seller through what it means for their net proceeds before they commit to anything.

There are liens on the property. Can you still buy it?

Yes. Tax sale certificates, water liens, and municipal charges get paid out of the sale proceeds at closing, handled by the attorneys. You do not need to clear them first.