Sell your house fast in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn.

Dyker Heights is the neighborhood on the hill between Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, with the golf course and Fort Hamilton Parkway on one side, 13th Avenue on the other, and the Christmas lights every December on the blocks between 11th and 13th Avenues. It was built between 1900 and 1940, first as big detached houses for people who wanted a view of the Narrows, then as brick semi attached two families on the numbered streets below. It has been an Italian neighborhood for a century and the families who bought in the 1950s are estates now, with children on Staten Island and in New Jersey, and Chinese families from Sunset Park and Bensonhurst are the buyers. The detached houses on the hill are among the most expensive in southern Brooklyn. The two families below are priced like Bensonhurst.

The typical home value in Dyker Heights is around $1,245,000, up roughly 4.2% over the past year, with houses averaging about 48 days on the market.

The detached house a parent bought in 1955 and never changed

The most common Dyker Heights call is an estate. A detached brick house on the hill, or a semi attached below it, bought in 1955 or 1963, paid off in 1985, kept exactly as it was: the original kitchen, a bathroom with 1950s tile, a cellar finished in the 1970s with paneling and a bar, a boiler nursed along for thirty years, and sixty years of belongings in every room. The children are on Staten Island, in Monmouth County or in Florida, there is a Kings County Surrogate’s Court file, and the house is full. Agents want it emptied and painted before photos. We buy it as it sits, belongings included, we wait for the letters, and the heirs sign from wherever they live.

The cellar apartment and the shared driveway

A great many Dyker Heights cellars have a kitchen, a bathroom and a tenant, and nearly every semi attached pair shares a driveway, often with no recorded easement. A cellar is almost never a legal apartment in New York City. The appraiser notes it, the lender wants it removed, and the financed deal ends. A driveway dispute holds a sale while two attorneys and a surveyor argue. We buy the house as its legal units, with the driveway dispute open, and our title company handles the easement after closing.

The big house with the four page inspection

The detached houses on the hill are the oldest in Dyker Heights, many from before 1920, with slate roofs, stone foundations, knob and tube on the upper floors, an oil tank in the yard, and a view a financed buyer falls in love with before the inspector arrives. The lender wants the wiring replaced and the tank pulled before closing, and the buyer asks for a credit larger than the seller expected. We buy them as they stand, price the whole list in the offer, and do the work after closing.

Two families with a tenant who stopped paying

The semi attached two families on the numbered streets are mostly owner occupied with a tenant upstairs, or owned by a family that moved to Staten Island and kept the house for the income. A tenant who stopped paying, a rent set in 2015, a Housing Court case adjourned four times. Brooklyn Housing Court takes most of a year. We buy occupied houses with the case open, at the rent actually coming in, and the eviction becomes ours at closing.

Where listing still wins in Dyker Heights

A renovated detached house on the hill, or an updated semi attached with legal units and no deadline, should be listed, and we will say so. Dyker Heights has buyers lined up for a house a lender will finance. Where a cash sale wins is the estate full of belongings, the cellar apartment the appraiser will flag, the driveway nobody can agree on, the old house with the four page inspection, the tenant in Housing Court, or the owner with a closing date in Florida that cannot move.

What we buy in Dyker Heights

Detached and semi attached brick and frame houses, two and three families, houses with a cellar apartment or a driveway dispute, pre 1920 houses on the hill with an oil tank or old wiring, mixed use buildings on 13th Avenue and 86th Street, estates in any condition, houses in foreclosure, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.

The hill, the numbered streets, and the golf course side

Dyker Heights is priced by elevation. The detached houses on the hill between 10th and 13th Avenues, from 79th to 86th Street, are the top of the market in southern Brooklyn and sell to families who will restore them. The semi attached two families on the numbered streets below, toward Bay Ridge Parkway and 14th Avenue, are priced like Bensonhurst, on the block and the cellar. The blocks along Fort Hamilton Parkway by the golf course and the base are their own pocket. We buy on all of them and the offer is built from sales on your blocks, with the comparable addresses on the sheet.

What every block shares is age. Nothing in Dyker Heights was built after 1940, and a house that has not been renovated has the same list no matter the street: original plaster, a service panel from the 1950s, galvanized water lines, a slate or flat roof with layers or missing pieces, a cellar that was finished in the 1970s without a permit, and in the older houses an oil tank in the yard. A lender’s inspector writes it all down. We read the same list and price it, and the house closes anyway.

Water bills, violations, and the liens the city attaches

New York City attaches water and sewer charges to the house, not the owner, and a two family where a cellar tenant has run the water for years on a frontage meter can carry a Department of Environmental Protection balance in the tens of thousands with a lien sale behind it. Environmental Control Board fines for a sidewalk, a dumpster or a missing boiler inspection attach the same way. Add an open Department of Buildings permit from a cellar job that was never closed out, and a title company has a page of items to clear before any lender will fund. We buy with all of it open. The balances come out of the purchase price at closing, itemized on the offer before you sign, and the open permits and violations become ours to close after the deed records.

Looking just beyond Dyker Heights? You can also sell your house fast in Bay Ridge NY or sell a house fast in Bensonhurst NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Borough Park NY.

Many Dyker Heights homeowners also ask us how to sell a hoarder house, sell a house in foreclosure, or sell an inherited home.