Marine Park, Brooklyn, NY
Sell your house fast in Marine Park, Brooklyn.
We buy Marine Park houses as is for cash. Brick semi attached houses from the 1930s, detached capes near the park, estates held since the 1950s, houses with a finished basement and a tenant, any condition.
$810,000
Typical Marine Park 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 Marine Park sellers call us.
Marine Park is the neighborhood wrapped around Brooklyn’s largest park, in the southeast corner of the borough between Flatlands and Gerritsen Beach, with Avenue U running through it, Flatbush Avenue and Kings Plaza on one side, Gerritsen Avenue on the other, and the salt marsh and the Belt Parkway below. It was built between 1925 and 1955: brick semi attached houses with a porch and a garage under on the East streets, detached capes and colonials on the blocks nearest the park, and a few streets of 1960s ranches toward the water. It has been Irish and Italian for three generations, the kind of neighborhood where the firehouse, the parish and the Little League are the same people, and the owners who bought in 1955 are in their nineties or gone. Their children are in Rockland, in Monmouth County or in Florida, and the house has a finished basement, a boiler from 1988, and sixty years of a family inside it.
The typical home value in Marine Park is around $810,000, up roughly 3.1% over the past year, with houses averaging about 82 days on the market.
The semi attached house a firefighter bought in 1956
The most common Marine Park call is an estate. A brick semi attached on East 33rd or East 36th Street, bought in 1956 by a firefighter or a Transit Authority man, paid off by 1980, with the original kitchen, a pink or green tile bathroom, a basement finished with paneling and a bar in 1972, a boiler that has been patched since the 1980s, and sixty years of belongings including the lawn chairs in the garage. The children are in Rockland County and Toms River. Kings County Surrogate’s Court has the file. An agent wants it emptied and painted. We buy it full, as it stands, wait for the letters, and each heir signs where they live.
The basement with a kitchen and a nephew
Marine Park basements are finished, and a good share of them have a kitchen, a bathroom, a side door and somebody in them, usually family. A basement is not a legal apartment in New York City without a certificate of occupancy that almost none of these have. The appraiser writes down the second kitchen, the lender wants it removed, and the financed buyer asks for a cut at the end or walks. We buy the house as its legal rooms, price the basement as a basement, and handle whoever is downstairs on terms worked out with you.
Gerritsen Avenue, the marsh and the flood line
The blocks closest to the park and the marsh, along Gerritsen Avenue and below Avenue U toward the Belt Parkway, are in the flood zone, and the houses nearest Gerritsen Beach took water in 2012. A house there carries a flood premium the next buyer’s lender will require, and an elevation certificate nobody ever ordered. Most of Marine Park above Avenue U is outside the zone. We know where the line runs and we price a house on the wrong side of it rather than walking away from it.
A parent in a nursing home and the house paying for it
A Marine Park owner in her nineties goes into care, the bill is fourteen thousand dollars a month, and the house is the only asset. The children have the power of attorney and an elder law attorney, and they need the house sold in weeks, not a season. A listing takes a season and a financed buyer takes sixty days after that. We close in about 14 days with the power of attorney signing and the attorney reviewing, and the proceeds fund the care.
Where listing still wins in Marine Park
A renovated semi attached with a current boiler, a legal basement and no deadline should be listed, and we will say so. Marine Park has families from Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay waiting for exactly that house. Where a cash sale wins is the estate full of belongings, the basement with a kitchen the appraiser will flag, the house below Avenue U with the flood premium, the parent in care, or the heirs in three states who want it done.
What we buy in Marine Park
Brick semi attached and detached houses, capes, colonials and ranches, two families, houses with a basement unit, houses in the flood zone near the park, mixed use buildings on Avenue U, Flatbush Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue, estates in any condition, houses in foreclosure, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.
Above Avenue U, below it, and the blocks by the park
Marine Park prices run by distance from the park and from Flatbush Avenue. The semi attached rows north of Avenue U between Flatbush and Gerritsen Avenue sell to families from Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay and are priced on the block, the garage and whether the basement is legal. The detached houses along Fillmore Avenue, Stuart Street and the blocks facing the park are the top of the market. South of Avenue U toward the marsh and the Belt Parkway, the flood map takes over and two identical houses a block apart can differ by the cost of a policy. We build the offer from sales on your side of each line, 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 1930s and 1950s brick. The houses are sound and the list a lender’s inspector writes is about what was never replaced: a roof with three layers, a boiler from the 1980s, galvanized pipes, a service panel from the year the house was built, a basement kitchen, and a porch on posts that have rotted. We read the same list and price it, and the house closes anyway.
Powers of attorney, Medicaid look back and the sale that has to happen first
A Marine Park parent who goes into care usually has a house and not much else, and the elder law attorney’s advice is almost always the same: the house has to be sold and the proceeds spent on care before a Medicaid application can succeed, and the five year look back means the sale has to be at a fair price with the paperwork clean. A listing that takes a season and falls apart at the appraisal burns the savings that were paying the nursing home. We close in about two weeks with the power of attorney signing, the attorney reviewing, and the comparable sales on the offer so the price stands up later.
Looking just beyond Marine Park? You can also sell your house fast in Flatlands NY or sell a house fast in Sheepshead Bay NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Bergen Beach NY.
Many Marine Park homeowners also ask us how to sell a house with bad tenants, sell a house with code violations, or sell a house with a tax lien.
How a sale like this goes in Marine Park
East 33rd Street Near Avenue S: a 1956 Brick Semi Attached, a Mother at Ninety Four in a Nursing Home on Ocean Parkway, a Basement Bar From 1972 and a Son in Nanuet With the Power of Attorney
His parents bought the brick semi attached on East 33rd Street in 1956, the year his father made lieutenant at Engine 321. His father finished the basement in 1972 with paneling and a bar. He died in 2009. His mother stayed in the house alone until a fall in October 2024 put her in a nursing home on Ocean Parkway at ninety four. The bill was thirteen thousand dollars a month. The son lived in Nanuet and had the power of attorney. His sister lived in Toms River. The house had the 1956 kitchen, a boiler from 1988, a roof with three layers and sixty eight years of a family in every closet.
The son called an agent in November. The agent wanted the house emptied, the basement bar removed and the kitchen painted before photos, and said a financed buyer would want the boiler replaced. By January the savings that had been paying the nursing home were half gone. The elder law attorney said the house had to be sold before Medicaid could be applied for.
We looked at it in January with the son. The offer was written on the house as it stood: the kitchen, the boiler, the roof, the basement as a basement with the bar still in it, and sixty eight years of belongings as a cleanout line. One page, with the comparable sales on East 32nd and East 34th listed by address. The elder law attorney reviewed it the same week.
The son signed under the power of attorney. We closed in February at a title company on Avenue U, three weeks after the first call. The proceeds went to his mother's account and the nursing home was paid through the summer that day. He took the photographs, his father's helmet from the basement wall and the bar stools. What he said was that the agent had been talking about paint while the money was running out.
Illustrative. Based on the situations we buy in across Marine Park. A composite, not a single transaction, with details changed.
Common reasons Marine Park sellers call us.
A brick semi attached on East 36th Street your father bought in 1956
Heirs in Rockland and Toms River, a Kings County Surrogate's file, a 1972 basement bar and sixty years inside. We buy it full and each heir signs where they live.
A basement kitchen and a nephew with a side door
No lender counts it. We price the basement as a basement and buy the house as its legal rooms.
Your mother in a nursing home and the bill due monthly
The power of attorney signs, the elder law attorney reviews, and we close in about two weeks so the proceeds pay the care.
A house below Avenue U with a flood quote that ended the last contract
The premium is a line on the sheet, not the end of the sale. We carry the policy after closing.
A 1988 boiler, a roof with three layers and a porch that needs posts
We price the list and buy the house as it stands, then do the work ourselves.
A Department of Buildings violation from a 311 call about the basement
The violation ends a financed sale. We buy with it open and clear it after closing.
A reverse mortgage that came due in the spring
The servicer gives six months. We close inside the window and the equity above the loan is the family's.
A move to Monmouth County with the new closing set
We set the Marine Park closing around it, about 14 days out, and nothing waits on a bank.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Marine Park.
How quickly can you buy a Marine Park house?
Send the address through the form or call (516) 964-7222. We see the house, you get a written offer within 24 hours with the comparable sales on it, and you pick the closing. About 14 days when the title is clean, two to four weeks with an estate or a lien.
My mother is in a nursing home and I have power of attorney. Can I sell?
Yes, if the power of attorney covers real estate, and most do. You sign under it, her elder law attorney reviews the contract, and we close in about two weeks. The proceeds go to her account and fund the care.
The basement has a kitchen and my nephew lives there. Is that a problem?
Not for us. A basement without a certificate of occupancy is not a legal unit in New York City, so we price the house as its legal rooms. Your nephew is handled on terms the family sets before closing.
Is Marine Park in the flood zone?
The blocks nearest the park, Gerritsen Avenue and the Belt Parkway are. Most of the neighborhood above Avenue U is not. A house in the zone carries a premium the next lender will require, and we price it in rather than walking away.
The house is full of sixty years of things. Do we empty it first?
No. You take what matters, and the rest stays. The cleanout is a line on the offer, not a job you have to finish before we close.
Would we do better listing?
Sometimes, and we say so. A renovated semi attached with a legal basement and no deadline usually nets more listed. Ours is the better route when the house is an estate full of belongings, the basement has a tenant, the flood premium will kill financing, a parent is in care, or you have a date.
How is the number figured?
Recent sales on your blocks, minus the work the house needs, minus carrying and resale, minus our margin. The basement, the boiler, the roof and any flood premium are each a line on the sheet, and the sheet is yours before you sign.
What are my costs?
None out of pocket. No commission, no fees, we pay our own closing costs. Your payoff, any liens or water balances, and the New York transfer taxes come off the price, each itemized on the offer.
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