Morris Park, Bronx, NY
Sell your house fast in Morris Park, Bronx.
We buy Morris Park houses as-is for cash. Detached brick two families, houses held since the 1960s, basement units, any condition.
$920,000
Median Morris Park sale
87 days
Avg market days
+9.4%
YoY change
About the area
Why Morris Park sellers call us.
Morris Park is the Bronx neighborhood that never stopped being a neighborhood of homeowners. The blocks between Bronxdale Avenue and Eastchester Road, from Pelham Parkway south to Van Nest, are detached and semi detached brick houses, one and two family, built in the 1920s and 1930s and bought by the Italian families who gave Morris Park Avenue its bakeries and its Columbus Day parade. Many of those families are still here, and many of those houses have not changed hands since the 1960s. The Einstein medical campus and Jacobi Hospital at the eastern edge bring steady rental demand from residents and nurses, which is why so many Morris Park two families have a basement apartment that has paid the mortgage for a generation and never appeared on a certificate of occupancy. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and Morris Park sellers call us because a brick two family that has been in one family for sixty years, with the original kitchen, a basement unit, and fifty years of belongings, is worth a great deal and hard to sell to a bank as it stands. For background on the neighborhood, see this Morris Park community profile.
Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and Morris Park is a market he treats with some care, because the sellers here are so often families in the middle of a loss. A brick two family on Lurting Avenue where Nonna lived for fifty eight years is not a spreadsheet, and the children who inherited it are usually in Westchester or New Jersey trying to agree on what to do. If you are thinking about selling your house in Morris Park, you deserve a straight number, the reasoning written out, and a buyer who does not treat your parents’ house as a flip. No agent fees, no repair demands, and no pressure to decide before the family is ready.
Sixty years in one house, and what that means at sale time
A house that has been owned since the Kennedy administration usually has the original kitchen, a bathroom from a 1980s update, a roof that has been patched more than once, a boiler on borrowed time, and, very often, a basement that was finished into an apartment for a relative or a hospital tenant and never legalized. It also has sixty years of belongings in every closet, the attic, and the garage. A financed buyer’s appraiser sees deferred maintenance and a layout that does not match the certificate of occupancy. An agent sees a house that needs thirty thousand dollars of work and a dumpster before it can be shown. The family sees the taxes coming due every quarter while nobody can agree on who is paying for what.
We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and we buy with everything still inside. Take the photographs and the things that matter to the family and leave the rest. The cleanout, the roof, the boiler, and the basement’s paperwork are line items in our offer and our problem after closing. Our guide to selling a house with code violations explains how the city handles the basement question.
The Morris Park sellers we hear from most
Estates, by a wide margin. The Bronx County Surrogate’s Court process for a Morris Park house is routine when there is a will and slower when there is not, and either way the executor is usually managing it from Yonkers or Scarsdale or Rockland. We work with executors and heirs constantly, we can wait out the probate paperwork, and we buy inherited houses exactly as they sit. If the heirs live out of state, we walk through what New York withholds from nonresident sellers at closing so the settlement statement holds no surprises.
Owners who are still in the house but ready to move are second. The house is too big, the stairs are too much, the children have been asking for years, and the idea of showings and strangers walking through is the thing that has kept it from happening. We visit once, make a written offer, and let you pick the closing date, even if that date is three months out to line up the move to the Hutchinson River Parkway or to Florida. Our guide to selling when it is time to downsize covers how we make that work.
Landlords are third. A two family with a basement unit near the hospitals is three rents on paper and a full time job in practice, and many Morris Park landlords inherited the job rather than chose it. We buy occupied houses with tenants in place and handle everything after closing ourselves.
Liens, the tax lien sale, and the paperwork side of Morris Park
New York City sells unpaid property taxes and water charges into its annual tax lien sale, and the Bronx has more properties in that sale than any other borough. Once the lien is sold the interest compounds quickly and the holder can eventually foreclose. Add open Department of Buildings violations on a basement conversion, an ECB judgment that became a lien, and a certificate of occupancy for a one family house that has been a two family for forty years, 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 the estate has fallen behind on the mortgage, New York’s court process takes two years or more in the Bronx, and selling during pre-foreclosure is almost always still an option.
What Morris Park houses are actually selling for
The median sale price across Morris Park and Van Nest is around $920,000, up roughly 9.4% over the past year, with houses averaging about 87 days on the market. The hospitals and the neighborhood’s reputation have kept demand steady, and a renovated brick two family with a legal layout sells quickly. But the headline number assumes a house that has been updated and can pass an appraisal. A detached two family with the 1965 kitchen, a basement apartment nobody registered, and sixty years of contents does not get the median. It gets price cuts, a listing that goes stale, and a family that keeps paying the taxes while they argue about repairs. We price the house for what it is, show you the math at the kitchen table, and leave the decision with the family.
What we buy in Morris Park
Detached and semi detached one and two family brick houses, houses with basement or cellar units legal or not, mixed use buildings on Morris Park Avenue and Williamsbridge Road with a store below, condos, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments, which rules out most of the buildings along Pelham Parkway. Most of what we see in Morris Park is the brick two family with a finished basement, full of belongings, owned by an estate, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.
How to reach us
Morris Park is the center of our east Bronx coverage. Toward the water we buy houses in Throggs Neck and in Soundview, up in the north Bronx we can help you sell your house fast in Wakefield, and over the county line we buy in Mount Vernon. Our full borough coverage is on the we buy houses in the Bronx page.
Our written offers stay open for seven days, no pressure attached. Take the number to the rest of the family, your attorney, or a competing buyer 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 Morris Park is part of our core Bronx 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 Morris Park? You can also sell your house fast in Throggs Neck NY or sell a house fast in Soundview NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Wakefield NY.
Many Morris Park homeowners also ask us how to sell a hoarder house, sell a house in foreclosure, or sell an inherited home.
Recent Morris Park transaction
A Brick Two Family on Lurting Avenue, Sold by Three Siblings After Fifty Eight Years
Their parents had bought the house in 1966, the year they came from Avellino, and their mother had lived in it alone for the last fourteen years. When she passed, the three children were in Scarsdale, in Toms River, and in an apartment in Pelham Bay, and the one in the Bronx became the executor because she was closest. She spent her weekends on Lurting Avenue dealing with the mail, the boiler, and the tenant in the basement, a nurse from Jacobi who had been there for nine years.nnThe house was sound and untouched: the original kitchen, a bathroom from 1982, a roof that had been patched twice, and a basement apartment their father had finished in the 1970s and never registered. Every room was full. An agent had walked through and said it needed a full cleanout, a new kitchen, and the tenant out before she could list it, and estimated the work at forty thousand dollars. The three siblings did not have forty thousand dollars they agreed on spending, and nobody wanted to put out a nurse who had been at their mother's funeral.nnNick York met the executor on a Saturday, walked every room including the basement, and sat down at their mother's dining table with a written offer that accounted for the kitchen, the roof, the basement's paperwork, the cleanout, and the reality of a tenant in place. The offer went to all three siblings that evening. It took them a week and one long phone call to agree.nnWe closed once the Bronx County Surrogate paperwork cleared, at the estate attorney's office on Westchester Avenue, with the money wired at the table and the proceeds split three ways as the will directed. The tenant kept her apartment with a new owner responsible for the house, and the house was sold with everything still inside except the photographs and their mother's dishes. The executor told us afterward that the offer letter had done something the family could not do on its own: it gave them one number to say yes to.
Common reasons Morris Park sellers call us.
Inherited a house from parents who bought it in the 1960s
A Bronx County Surrogate sale managed from Westchester or New Jersey, with a house full of sixty years of belongings and three opinions about what to do, is exhausting. We give the family one written number, buy the house exactly as it sits, and close at an attorney's office when the estate is ready.
Still in the house, but the stairs are too much
The idea of showings is what has kept you from selling. We visit once, make a written offer, and let you pick a closing date that lines up with the move, even months out.
A basement apartment that was never registered
Half the two families in Morris Park have one, usually with a hospital tenant, and it kills financed deals the moment the appraiser goes downstairs. It is a line item for us. We buy the house as it is, tenant included, and handle the city after closing.
A tenant you do not want to put out
We buy occupied houses with the tenant in place. They keep their home with a new owner responsible for the building, and you never have to go through an eviction to sell.
Tax lien sale notice in the mail
The Bronx has more properties in the city lien sale than any other borough, and once your taxes and water are sold the interest compounds fast. We buy Morris Park houses carrying tax liens and clear them from the proceeds at closing.
Behind on the mortgage
New York foreclosure takes two years or more in the Bronx, and until the auction you can still sell. Selling before the sale protects your credit and recovers equity foreclosure would take.
DOB violations and a certificate of occupancy that does not match
A one family C of O on a house that has been a two family for forty years scares off buyers and their banks. It does not scare us. We buy with violations open and deal with the city ourselves.
A house full of everything
You do not have to empty it. Take the photographs and the things that matter, leave the rest, and the cleanout is our job after closing, not yours before it.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Morris Park.
How do I sell my house fast in Morris Park?
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 three weeks out. No agents, no repairs, no fees, and no obligation to accept.
How fast can you close on a Morris Park house?
In most cases we close in two to four weeks from the offer. We pay cash, so there is no bank timeline. New York closings happen at an attorney's office with your own lawyer present, and for an estate we work around the Surrogate's Court schedule.
We inherited the house and the siblings do not agree. Can you still help?
Yes, and this is the most common Morris Park situation we see. We make one written offer that goes to everyone, it holds for seven days so the family can talk, and the proceeds are split at closing however the will or the estate attorney directs. A real number on paper usually ends the argument.
My parents' house has a basement apartment with a hospital tenant. Is that a problem?
It is a problem for a financed buyer, because the appraiser and the lender will not count the unit and may decline the loan. It is a line item for us. We buy the house as it is, tenant included, price the basement honestly, and handle the city after closing.
The house is full of my parents' belongings. Do we have to clear it out?
No. We buy Morris Park houses with everything still inside. Take the photographs and the things that matter to the family and leave the rest. The cleanout is our job after closing.
I live out of state. How does an estate sale in the Bronx work remotely?
We handle the process remotely. We coordinate with the Bronx County Surrogate's Court paperwork and your estate attorney, buy the house as it sits, and close 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 you decide what to offer for a Morris Park property?
We look at recent comparable sales on the surrounding blocks, the condition of the house and roof, whether the layout matches the certificate of occupancy, the rent situation if it is occupied, and every lien and violation 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 Morris Park?
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 Bronx neighborhoods.
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