Brick, NJ, NJ
Sell your house fast in Brick, NJ.
We buy Brick houses as is for cash. 1960s ranches and capes, lagoon houses on the Metedeconk, Sandy houses on the barrier island, estates with heirs up north, any condition.
$545,000
Median Brick sale
42 days
Avg market days
+5.7%
YoY change
About the area
Why Brick sellers call us.
Brick is the township just north of Toms River, built almost entirely between 1955 and 1980 for people leaving Newark, Jersey City and Brooklyn for a ranch with a yard and a boat. The Metedeconk River and Kettle Creek cut it into peninsulas lined with lagoons, Barnegat Bay is the eastern edge, and across the bay a strip of the barrier island, Normandy Beach and Ocean Beach, is Brick too. Route 70 and Brick Boulevard are the commercial spine. Most houses are ranches, capes and bilevels on a quarter acre, and most of the people who bought them new are now in their eighties or gone, which is why so many of the calls we get from Brick come from Bergen County, Staten Island and Florida.
The typical single family home value in Brick is around $545,000, up roughly 5.7% over the past year, with houses averaging about 42 days on the market.
The 1965 ranch nobody has touched since the Carter administration
Brick’s housing stock is one generation old, and a great deal of it has had one owner. Original kitchen, original bathrooms, a roof on its second or third layer, a furnace from the 1980s, aluminum wiring in the ones built around 1970, and a crawlspace that has taken water. A financed buyer’s inspector writes four pages and the lender wants the wiring addressed before closing. We buy these ranches exactly as they stand, price the whole list in the offer, and do the work after closing.
Lagoon houses, the Metedeconk, and the flood maps
The lagoon neighborhoods along the Metedeconk and Kettle Creek are the best addresses in Brick and the hardest to finance. Sandy flooded most of them in 2012. The federal flood maps were redrawn, the insurance pricing changed, and a house that was not raised now carries a premium a lender will require and a buyer will balk at. Some were raised with state money and carry a grant condition. Some have a bulkhead that is failing. We buy lagoon houses raised or not, with the elevation, the premium and the bulkhead priced into the offer, and the insurance becomes ours.
Estates with heirs in Bergen County and Florida
The most common Brick call is a parent’s house. Bought new in 1968, paid off in 1990, kept exactly as it was. The children are in Paramus, Staten Island or Boca Raton, there is an Ocean County Surrogate’s file, and the house is full. Agents want it emptied and updated before photos. We buy it as it sits, belongings included, we wait for the letters, and the heirs sign from wherever they live.
Septic to sewer, and the houses still on a tank
Brick ran sewer lines through most of the township in the 1970s and 1980s, but pockets remain on septic, and some houses were never connected even after the main reached the street. A lender wants the septic certified or the sewer connection made before funding, and a connection can cost more than the seller expects. We buy on septic, unconnected or failing, and handle the connection after we close.
Where listing still wins in Brick
A renovated ranch on a dry street with a new roof and no deadline, or a raised lagoon house with a current elevation certificate, should be listed, and we will say so. Buyers from North Jersey line up for a house a lender will finance. Where a cash sale wins is the untouched 1965 ranch, the lagoon house with the flood quote, the estate full of belongings, the septic that will not pass, or the owner who needs to be in Florida by a date.
What we buy in Brick
Ranches, capes, bilevels and colonials on the mainland, lagoon and riverfront houses raised or not, Sandy houses on the barrier island in any stage, houses on septic, estates in any condition, houses in foreclosure, and vacant lots. We do not buy condominiums in buildings with pending litigation. If you own something unusual, call anyway.
Dry streets, lagoon streets, and the barrier island: three Bricks
Brick is three markets. The dry streets between Route 70, Brick Boulevard and Herbertsville Road are ranches and bilevels priced like any Shore suburb, and the risk in them is age. The lagoon streets off the Metedeconk, Kettle Creek and Beaver Dam Creek are priced on the water, the elevation and the insurance, and the risk is the flood map and the bulkhead. The barrier island, Normandy Beach and Ocean Beach, is summer houses and Sandy rebuilds priced on the beach and the zone. We buy in all three and the offer is built from sales on your side of the township, with the comparable addresses listed on the sheet.
What the three share is a single generation of construction. Nearly every house in Brick went up between 1955 and 1980, and a house that has not been renovated has the same list no matter the street: the original panel and often aluminum branch wiring, a roof on its third layer, a furnace from the 1980s, a crawlspace that has taken water, and in the older sections a buried oil tank. A lender’s inspector writes it all down. We read the same list and price it, and the house closes anyway.
Ocean County taxes, the sheriff’s sale, and the clock
Brick’s taxes on an empty estate ranch are the clock, and a rental where the tenant stopped paying is the same clock with a court date attached. New Jersey foreclosure runs through Ocean County Superior Court and takes well over a year, which is the opening: a house in default with a sheriff’s sale somewhere ahead still has equity in it, and a cash closing before the sale date pays the lender and keeps the rest yours. Tax sale certificates and water and sewer balances get paid at closing out of the price, itemized on the offer before you sign.
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Many Brick homeowners also ask us how to sell a hoarder house, sell a house in foreclosure, or sell an inherited home.
Recent Brick transaction
A 1968 Bilevel on a Kettle Creek Lagoon, Original Kitchen and a Failing Bulkhead, Sold by a Daughter in Boca Raton After the Flood Quote Ended Two Deals
Her parents bought the bilevel on a lagoon off Kettle Creek new in 1968, when her father was still commuting to Newark. They retired there, kept the boat until 2005, and kept the house exactly as it was. Sandy put water in the lower level in 2012 and her father dried it out himself. He died in 2019. Her mother stayed until a fall in 2024 sent her to the daughter's house in Boca Raton. The daughter was the only child.
She listed it in the spring of 2025. Two buyers went into contract. The first one's lender required a flood policy, the quote came back at a figure the buyer called insane, and the buyer walked. The second one's inspector found the bulkhead rotting at the waterline, the original aluminum wiring, a furnace from 1984, and water lines on the lower level walls, and asked for a credit the daughter could not give. The listing expired in August.
Nick York met her at the house in September when she flew up for the weekend and walked it with her, the lower level, the lagoon side, the bulkhead. The offer was written on the house as it was: not raised, a flood policy that would have to be written new at the current rate, a bulkhead that needed replacing, the wiring, the furnace, and fifty seven years of her parents' things. The number was written out with the math on one page.
We closed in October at a title company in Brick. She took the photo albums and her father's charts of the bay the day before. The rest stayed. She said the part she appreciated was that nobody told her to get a flood quote first.
Common reasons Brick sellers call us.
A 1965 ranch with its original everything
A four page inspection, aluminum wiring, a roof on its third layer. We price the whole list and buy the house as it stands.
A lagoon house with a flood insurance quote
The buyer wants the bulkhead and the lender requires the policy. We price the elevation and the premium into the offer and close without either contingency.
A parent's house on a cul de sac off Herbertsville Road, untouched since 1990
Heirs in Bergen County and Florida, an Ocean County Surrogate's file, sixty years of belongings. We buy it full, wait for the letters, and close remotely.
A septic system, or a sewer line that was never connected
A lender wants it certified or connected. We buy without the contingency and handle the work after we close.
A Sandy house on the barrier island, raised and unfinished
Normandy Beach and Ocean Beach still have them. No lender will touch an unfinished elevation. We buy it as it stands and finish it.
A bulkhead that is failing
A new bulkhead is tens of thousands and a buyer's inspector will flag it. We price it and take the job on after closing.
A foreclosure filed in Ocean County Superior Court
New Jersey foreclosure is a court process and it is slow. A cash closing before the sheriff's sale pays the lender and keeps the remaining equity yours.
A move to Florida with a date attached
The new place closes on a date and the Brick house has to be sold by then. We pick the closing date around yours. Two to three weeks is typical.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Brick.
How do I sell my house fast in Brick?
Call (516) 964-7222 or send the address through the form on this page. We look at the house, give you a written cash offer within 24 hours with the reasoning shown, and you pick the closing date. Two to three weeks is typical.
Do you really buy in Brick from a Great Neck office?
Yes. We buy across New Jersey and have for years. Brick is about ninety minutes from our office and we drive it. The walkthrough is in person, the closing is at a New Jersey title company or attorney, and the offer is based on Brick sales.
The house is on a lagoon and the flood insurance is expensive. Does that stop you?
No. It stops a financed buyer, because the lender requires the policy. We price the elevation and the premium into the offer the same way we price a roof, and we close without a lender.
The house still has a septic tank. Is that a problem?
Not for us. A lender wants it certified or the house connected to the sewer before funding. We buy without that contingency and handle the connection or the replacement after closing.
I inherited a house in Brick and live in Florida. How does this work?
We coordinate with the Ocean County Surrogate paperwork and your estate attorney, a neighbor or relative lets us in for the walkthrough, and closing documents are signed remotely. The house stays full until the day we close, and you take what you want first.
The house was damaged in Sandy and raised but never finished. Will you buy it?
Yes. We buy Sandy houses in any stage, on the mainland lagoons or the barrier island, and we take on the open permits, the certificate of occupancy and any state grant paperwork after closing.
Should I list my Brick house instead?
Often, yes, and we will tell you. A renovated ranch on a dry street with no deadline usually nets more listed. A cash sale wins when the house has not been touched in fifty years, the flood quote will kill financing, the septic will not pass, the house is an estate full of belongings, or you need a closing by a date.
What does it cost me to sell to EZ Home Buyers?
Nothing out of pocket. No commission, no fees, and we pay our own closing costs. The only deductions are your mortgage payoff and any liens or back taxes that must be satisfied, itemized in the offer before you sign.