East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY
Sell your house fast in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
We buy East Flatbush houses as-is for cash. Brick rowhouses, two and three families, basement units, tenants in place, any condition.
$875,000
Median East Flatbush sale
114 days
Avg market days
+3.2%
YoY change
About the area
Why East Flatbush sellers call us.
East Flatbush is the heart of Caribbean Brooklyn and one of the densest neighborhoods of small homeowners in the city. The blocks between Church Avenue and Kings Highway, from Nostrand Avenue east to Remsen Village, are attached brick rowhouses and two and three family houses built in the 1920s and 1930s, sold to Jewish and Italian families then and bought by Jamaican, Haitian, Trinidadian, and Guyanese families from the 1970s on. Most of those families stayed, and most of those houses have been extended, subdivided, and rewired several times since, which is why a typical East Flatbush house has more kitchens than its certificate of occupancy. The hospital corridor along Clarkson Avenue brings steady rental demand, and investors have been working the neighborhood hard since prices in Crown Heights and Flatbush proper went out of reach. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and East Flatbush sellers call us because a three family with a basement apartment nobody registered, a tenant who stopped paying, and a stack of city violations is a hard sale to a bank and a normal one to us. For background on the neighborhood, see this East Flatbush community profile.
Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and East Flatbush is a market he prices on the rent roll and the paperwork as much as the bricks. An attached rowhouse on East 51st Street with a legal two family layout and paying tenants is a different asset than the same house with four kitchens, one paying tenant, and a Department of Buildings file, and both are different from a house near Kings County Hospital that an estate has been carrying since 2020. If you are thinking about selling your house in East Flatbush, you deserve a real number with the reasoning written out, from a buyer who has walked every floor and pulled the record. No agent fees, no repair demands, no financing that dies when the appraiser counts the kitchens.
Four kitchens, one certificate of occupancy, and why banks walk away
The defining East Flatbush problem is the house that became a building. A two family that has been a three family since 1985, with a basement apartment for a relative and an attic room with a hot plate, has three or four kitchens and a certificate of occupancy for two units. An appraiser will not count the extra units. A lender who hears about them may decline the loan outright. Add a tenant who has not paid since the pandemic, a Housing Preservation violation from the last inspection, and an ECB judgment that has quietly become a lien, and a financed buyer’s file gets declined. The house sits, the seller is told to legalize apartments the zoning will not allow, and the taxes keep coming.
We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and the extra kitchens, the violations, and the rent roll are line items in our offer instead of reasons the deal dies. Our guide to selling a house with code violations explains how the city’s system works, and East Flatbush is where we use it every week.
The East Flatbush sellers we hear from most
Estates come first. East Flatbush houses were bought by families who stayed forty and fifty years, and when a parent passes the children are often in Georgia, Florida, or Canada with a Kings County Surrogate’s Court probate to manage from a distance and a house full of tenants and belongings. We work with executors and heirs constantly, we can wait out the Surrogate paperwork, and we buy inherited houses exactly as they sit. If the heirs live out of state or out of the country, we walk through what New York withholds from nonresident sellers at closing so the settlement statement holds no surprises.
Tired landlords are second. A three family in East Flatbush is a full time job, and many owners inherited the job from a parent who managed it with a notebook. Rent that stops arriving, city inspections, a tenant who knows the housing court calendar better than the owner does. When a landlord is done, we buy the building with tenants in place, at the actual rent roll, and handle everything after closing ourselves.
And then there are the owners being worked by wholesalers. Central Brooklyn gets more cold calls, postcards, and door knocks than almost anywhere in the city, and some of them cross the line into deed theft. If anyone has asked you to sign a deed, a power of attorney, or a contract you did not understand outside a closing with your own attorney present, stop and call us. Every sale we make closes at a New York attorney’s office, with your own lawyer, with the money wired at the table.
Liens, the tax lien sale, and the paperwork side of East Flatbush
New York City sells unpaid property taxes and water charges into its annual tax lien sale, and once the lien is sold the interest compounds quickly and the holder can eventually foreclose. Add unpaid ECB penalties that became judgments, HPD emergency repair charges billed back to the owner, and a certificate of occupancy that describes a house with fewer units than it has, and the title report runs long. We deal with tax liens and title problems as part of the purchase. Our attorneys pull the municipal searches and payoff letters every week, and our offer accounts for what has to be satisfied at closing. If you are behind on the mortgage as well, Kings County foreclosures take three years or more, and selling during pre-foreclosure is almost always still an option.
What East Flatbush houses are actually selling for
The median sale price across East Flatbush is around $875,000, up roughly 3.2% over the past year, with houses averaging about 114 days on the market. Buyers priced out of Crown Heights and Flatbush have pushed prices on the blocks near the 2 and 5 trains, and a rowhouse with a legal layout and paying tenants sells quickly. But the headline number assumes exactly that. A three family with four kitchens, one nonpaying tenant, and a cited basement does not get the median. It gets price cuts, a financed buyer who disappears at the appraisal, and months of carrying costs. We price the house for what it is, show you the math at the kitchen table, and leave the decision with you.
What we buy in East Flatbush
Attached brick rowhouses, semi attached two to four family houses, houses that have been carved into apartments legally or not, mixed use buildings on Church Avenue, Utica Avenue, and Nostrand Avenue with a store below, condos, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. Most of what we see in East Flatbush is the attached rowhouse that became a three family, occupied, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.
How to reach us
East Flatbush is the center of our Brooklyn coverage. North of Eastern Parkway we buy houses in Bed-Stuy, to the east we can help you sell your house fast in East New York and in Canarsie, and on the other side of Prospect Park we buy in Park Slope. Our full borough coverage is on the we buy houses in Brooklyn page.
Our written offers stay open for seven days, no pressure attached. Take the number to your family, your attorney, or one of the investors who keeps calling, and compare freely. Offers built on real math do not fear a week of thinking.
EZ Home Buyers is a family-owned company based in Great Neck, NY 11021. We have been operating across the NY metro area since 2000, and East Flatbush is part of our core Brooklyn coverage. Call us at (516) 964-7222, email info@ezhomebuyers.com, or fill out the form on this page. Nick York will be in touch quickly, usually the same business day. We schedule a walkthrough at your convenience, make a cash offer within 24 hours of seeing the property, and close at a New York attorney’s office on a timeline that works for you.
Looking just beyond East Flatbush? You can also sell your house fast in Bed-Stuy NY or sell a house fast in Canarsie NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in East New York NY.
Many East Flatbush homeowners also ask us how to sell a hoarder house, sell a house in foreclosure, or sell an inherited home.
Recent East Flatbush transaction
An Attached Rowhouse on East 51st Street, Sold With Four Kitchens and a Two Family Certificate of Occupancy
Her parents had bought the rowhouse in 1979, two years after arriving from Kingston, and had turned the basement into an apartment for her grandmother in 1986 and the attic into a room for a cousin a few years later. By the time she inherited it she lived in Mississauga, had a full time job, and had inherited four kitchens, a two family certificate of occupancy, a top floor tenant who paid, a second floor tenant who had not paid since 2021, and a Department of Buildings file with three open violations.nnShe listed it from Canada. The first buyer's appraiser counted two units and flagged the rest, and the lender declined. The second buyer, an investor, offered a number that assumed the tenants would be gone and the violations would be hers to clear. An attorney told her legalizing the units would take two years and might not succeed. Meanwhile the estate was paying the taxes and the water bill for a building that produced one rent.nnNick York walked all four levels on her one trip down, with the tenants' permission, and sat down with her at her mother's kitchen table with the certificate of occupancy and the violations printed out. The offer accounted for the illegal units, the violations, the roof, the boiler, and the reality of a building with one reliable rent. It was in writing, it held for seven days, and it said in plain language that nothing would be signed anywhere but at her attorney's office. She took it to the estate attorney in Downtown Brooklyn and said yes from Canada five days later.nnWe closed once the Kings County Surrogate paperwork cleared, with the money wired to the attorney's escrow and the closing handled by counsel on both sides. Both tenants kept their homes with a new owner responsible for the building, the violations transferred to us, and she never had to fly down again. She said afterward that we were the first buyer who had not asked her to turn the building back into what the paperwork said it was.
Common reasons East Flatbush sellers call us.
A house that became a building the city never approved
Four kitchens and a two family certificate of occupancy end every financed deal at the appraisal. It is a line item for us. We buy the building as it is, tenants included, and handle the city after closing.
Inherited a house from parents who came from the islands
Managing a Kings County Surrogate sale from Georgia, Florida, or Canada, with tenants and belongings inside, is exhausting. We work with executors and heirs through the process, buy the house exactly as it sits, and close at an attorney's office when the estate is ready.
Tired landlord with three rents and a housing court date
An East Flatbush three family is a full time job. We buy occupied buildings at the actual rent roll, nonpaying tenants included, and take the whole situation off your hands at closing.
Wholesalers and door knockers pressuring you
Central Brooklyn gets more cold calls than almost anywhere in the city, and some cross the line into deed theft. We never ask for a signature outside a closing with your own attorney present. Show us the number you were offered and we will tell you honestly if it is fair.
Tax lien sale notice in the mail
Once the city sells your unpaid taxes and water into the lien sale, the interest compounds fast. We buy East Flatbush houses carrying tax liens and clear them from the proceeds at closing.
Behind on the mortgage
Kings County foreclosures take three years or more, and until the referee's auction you can still sell. Selling before the sale protects your credit and recovers equity foreclosure would take.
HPD and DOB violations going back decades
Open violations and an ECB judgment that became a lien scare off buyers and their banks. They do not scare us. We buy with violations open, pay the liens from the proceeds at closing, and deal with the city ourselves.
A store below with a lease you cannot break
A mixed use building on Church Avenue or Utica Avenue with a commercial tenant confuses residential buyers and their lenders. We buy mixed use with the lease in place and price it on the real income.
Frequently asked questions about selling in East Flatbush.
How do I sell my house fast in East Flatbush?
Call (516) 964-7222 or submit the short form on this page. We visit the property, make a written cash offer within 24 hours, and you pick the closing date, often two to four weeks out. No agents, no repairs, no fees, and no obligation to accept.
How fast can you close on an East Flatbush house?
In most cases we close in two to four weeks from the offer. We pay cash, so there is no bank timeline. Occupied buildings sometimes take a little longer for tenant estoppel letters. New York closings happen at an attorney's office with your own lawyer present.
My house has four kitchens but the certificate of occupancy says two family. Can you still buy it?
Yes. That is the most common East Flatbush situation we see. A financed buyer's lender will not count the extra units and will often decline the loan. We price the building honestly on what it is, buy it as it stands with the tenants in place, and handle the city after closing.
My tenant has not paid since the pandemic. Do I have to evict them before selling?
No. We buy occupied East Flatbush buildings with nonpaying tenants regularly. We price the building on the actual rent roll, the housing court case transfers to us, and you never have to finish the eviction.
I inherited the house and I live out of the country. How does that work?
We handle the process remotely. We coordinate with the Kings County Surrogate's Court paperwork and your estate attorney, buy the house as it sits with tenants and belongings in place, and close through counsel when the estate is ready. New York withholds estimated income tax from nonresident sellers at closing, and we walk you through that number before you commit.
How do I know you are not one of the deed theft scams?
Because we never ask you to 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 and the purchase money wired at the table. Our offer is in writing, it holds for seven days, and you are free to show it to anyone. If a buyer wants a signature before a closing, walk away.
How do you decide what to offer for an East Flatbush property?
We look at recent comparable sales on the surrounding blocks, what the house was built as and what it has become, the actual rent roll, the condition of the roof and systems, and every violation and lien that has to be settled at closing. Nick York walks the property and gives you a straight number with the reasoning explained.
Do I pay commissions or fees when I sell to EZ Home Buyers in East Flatbush?
No agent commissions and no listing fees. We cover standard closing costs on our side. The offer we present is what you walk away with, minus any existing mortgage or liens paid off at closing. No surprise deductions on closing day.
We also buy in nearby Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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