Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, NY
Sell your house fast in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn.
We buy Bergen Beach and Mill Basin houses as is for cash. 1960s ranches and high ranches, waterfront houses on the lagoons, houses Sandy flooded and nobody raised, estates, any condition.
$810,000
Typical Bergen Beach home value
82 days
Avg market days
+3.1%
YoY change
Typical value from the Zillow Home Value Index for single family homes, September 2026. Days on market from Realtor.com. These are market figures, not an EZ Home Buyers offer.
About the area
Why Bergen Beach sellers call us.
Bergen Beach is the neighborhood at the far southeast edge of Brooklyn, on the peninsula between Mill Basin and Paerdegat Basin, with Jamaica Bay and the Belt Parkway below it, Ralph Avenue and Canarsie on one side and Flatbush Avenue on the other. It was marsh and an amusement park until the 1950s, and most of it was built between 1955 and 1975: brick ranches and high ranches with a garage under on 40 foot lots, split levels in Georgetown toward Ralph Avenue, and big houses on the Mill Basin lagoons with a dock in the back. It has been Italian and Jewish for two generations and is mixed now, with families from Canarsie and Flatlands moving in for a driveway and a yard. It is also almost entirely in the flood zone. The surge came up the basins in October 2012, and the difference between a house that was raised afterward and one that was dried out and left is the largest single factor in what any house here is worth.
The typical home value in Bergen Beach is around $810,000, up roughly 3.1% over the past year, with houses averaging about 82 days on the market.
The high ranch that took four feet of water and was never raised
The most common Bergen Beach call is a house that flooded in 2012 and was repaired, not raised. The garage level and the lower bedrooms got four feet of water, the insurance paid for some of it, the owner gutted the lower level himself and put the boiler and the electrical panel up on a platform, and the family went on living upstairs. Thirteen years later the house carries a flood premium that has doubled twice, no elevation certificate, a lower level that is officially storage and actually a bedroom, and sometimes an open Department of Buildings permit from the 2013 repair. A financed buyer loves the house until the insurance quote arrives. We buy it with the quote in the number and carry the policy ourselves after closing.
The waterfront house on the lagoon with a dock and a bulkhead
The houses on the Mill Basin lagoons, on the dead end streets off Avenue U and National Drive, were the top of the market before 2012 and still are, with a dock behind the house and a boat on it. They also have a bulkhead that is fifty years old, a seawall the Army Corps and the city have opinions about, and a flood policy that a lender requires at a number that ends most contracts. We price the bulkhead and the policy, buy the house with the boat lift and the dock as they are, and the waterfront stays in the number.
The ranch your parents bought in 1962 and the children in Staten Island
Bergen Beach was new in 1962 and the families who bought then are estates now. A brick ranch on East 71st Street with the original kitchen, a lower level finished in 1975, a boiler on a platform since 2013, a tank in the ground, and sixty years of belongings. The children are on Staten Island, in Marlboro or in Boca Raton. Kings County Surrogate’s Court, an estate attorney, and a house nobody wants to drive to. We buy it full, wait for the letters, and each heir signs where they live.
Georgetown, Ralph Avenue and the sewer backups
Georgetown, the split levels and attached houses toward Ralph Avenue, is a little higher and drier, but the sewers back up in a heavy rain and most houses have a check valve and a story. A finished lower level with a water line on the wall, a sump pump, and a basement bathroom that was never on the certificate of occupancy are what a financed buyer’s inspector finds. We price the list and buy the house as it stands.
Where listing still wins in Bergen Beach
A raised house with a current elevation certificate, a renovated interior and no deadline should be listed, and we will say so. There are buyers waiting for a house a lender will insure in Bergen Beach. Where a cash sale wins is the house that was never raised, the lagoon house with the fifty year old bulkhead, the estate full of belongings, the open permit from 2013, or the owner with a closing date in Florida that cannot move.
What we buy in Bergen Beach
Brick ranches, high ranches, split levels and colonials, waterfront houses on the Mill Basin lagoons, houses that flooded in 2012 raised or not, attached houses in Georgetown, two families, estates in any condition, houses in foreclosure, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.
The lagoons, the East streets, Georgetown and the Avenue U edge
Bergen Beach and Mill Basin are priced by the water and by what happened in 2012. The lagoon houses on the dead end streets off National Drive and Avenue U are the top of the market, with the dock and the bulkhead in the number. The ranches and high ranches on the East streets in the 60s and 70s are priced on whether they were raised, on the policy, and on the elevation certificate. Georgetown, the split levels and attached houses toward Ralph Avenue, is higher and drier and priced on the block and the sewer story. We build the offer from sales on your blocks, raised against not raised, with the comparable addresses on the sheet, and we show you which band your house is in before we show you the number.
What the bands share is the 1960s build and the storm. A house that was never renovated after 2012 carries the same list: a boiler and a panel on a platform, a lower level that is storage on paper, a flood policy at the current rate, an elevation certificate nobody ordered, a tank by the driveway, and sometimes an open permit from the repair. A lender uses that list to stall. We use it to write the offer, line by line, and the closing date holds.
Elevation certificates, grant conditions and the paperwork from 2013
A house that went through the city’s Build It Back program after Sandy may carry a grant agreement in its deed that requires flood insurance to be maintained, and an elevation certificate that was filed once and never updated. A house repaired privately may carry an open Department of Buildings permit from a 2013 electrical or plumbing job that was never signed off. A title company finds all of it and a lender wants it resolved before funding. We buy with the permits open and the grant conditions in place, and the title company closes them out after the deed records.
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How a sale like this goes in Bergen Beach
East 69th Street Off Avenue T: a 1964 High Ranch With Four Feet of Water in 2012, a Boiler on a Platform, a Permit Open Since 2013 and a Widow Who Wanted to Be in Marlboro by Spring
She and her husband bought the brick high ranch on East 69th Street in 1964, the year it was built. Sandy put four feet of water through the garage level in October 2012. Her husband gutted the lower level himself, set the new boiler and the electrical panel on a platform, pulled a permit for the electrical work and never had it signed off. He died in 2021. The flood policy had gone from eleven hundred dollars a year to nine thousand. Her daughter lived in Marlboro and had a room ready for her.
She listed in September 2024. The first buyer went into contract and walked when the flood quote came back. The second buyer's attorney found the open permit from 2013 and the lender would not fund until it was closed, which meant an electrician, an inspection and the Department of Buildings. The agent suggested raising the house. She was eighty one.
We looked at it in December with her and her daughter. The offer was written on the house as it stood: not raised, a flood policy at the current rate, an open permit we would close, a lower level that was storage on the certificate and a den in fact, the 1964 kitchen upstairs, and sixty years of a marriage in the closets. One page, every line with a number next to it, with the sales on East 68th and East 70th listed by address.
We closed in January at a title company on Flatbush Avenue. She took the photographs, the wedding china and her husband's fishing rods from the garage. She was in Marlboro by February. What she said was that two agents had told her the house was the problem, and the house had been fine. The paperwork was the problem, and that was ours now.
Illustrative. Based on the situations we buy in across Bergen Beach. A composite, not a single transaction, with details changed.
Common reasons Bergen Beach sellers call us.
A high ranch on East 71st Street that took four feet of water in 2012 and was never raised
The flood quote ended the last two contracts. We buy with the premium in the number and carry the policy after closing.
A lagoon house with a dock, a boat lift and a bulkhead from 1968
A lender wants the bulkhead inspected and the policy bound. We price both and the waterfront stays in the offer.
Your parents' 1962 ranch with the lower level finished in 1975
Heirs on Staten Island and in Boca, a Surrogate's file, sixty years inside. We buy it full and each heir signs where they live.
An open Department of Buildings permit from the 2013 repair
A title company finds it and a lender stops. We buy with it open and close it out ourselves.
A lower level that is storage on paper and a bedroom in fact
The appraiser notes it. We price the house as the certificate reads and buy what is actually there.
A tank in the ground by the driveway from before the gas line
A bank wants it pulled and tested first. We buy with it in the ground and the soil result is our risk.
A 2006 mortgage behind since the flood insurance doubled
Kings County foreclosures take years and that is the opening. A cash closing before the referee's date pays the bank and leaves the equity.
A move to Marlboro or Florida with the new closing set
We set the Bergen Beach closing around it, about 14 days out, and nothing waits on a bank or an insurer.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Bergen Beach.
How fast can you buy a Bergen Beach house?
Call (516) 964-7222 or send the address. We see the house, you get a written offer within 24 hours with the comparable sales on it, and you choose the date. About 14 days when the title is clean, two to four weeks with an estate or an open permit.
The house flooded in Sandy and was repaired but not raised. Does that end it?
No. The flood zone, the premium and any open permit from the repair are priced in the way a roof is. A financed buyer loses the house at the insurance quote. We do not need a lender, so the quote is a line on our sheet.
The house is on a lagoon with a dock. Do you buy waterfront?
Yes. We price the bulkhead, the dock and the flood policy as lines, and the water stays in the number. A lender's bulkhead inspection and insurance requirement are what end most waterfront contracts in Mill Basin, and we need neither.
The flood insurance is more than the mortgage payment. Does that lower the offer a lot?
It lowers it by what the next owner will pay for the policy, and we show that line. What it does not do is end the sale, which is what it does with a financed buyer.
I inherited the house with my brother and we are on Staten Island and in Florida. How does this work?
We coordinate with the Kings County Surrogate's Court file and your estate attorney, a neighbor lets us in, and each of you signs with a notary where you live. The house stays full until closing and you take what you want first.
Would listing get more?
For a raised house with a current elevation certificate and no deadline, usually yes, and we say so. Ours is the better route when the house was never raised, the policy will kill financing, the bulkhead is old, the house is an estate, there is an open permit, or you have a date.
How do you figure the offer?
Recent sales on your side of Avenue U, raised versus not raised, minus the work, the policy, the bulkhead if there is one, carrying and resale, and our margin. Each is a line on the sheet and the sheet is yours before you sign.
What comes off the price?
Your payoff, any liens or water balances, and the New York State and City transfer taxes, each itemized on the offer. No commission, no fees, we pay our own closing costs.
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