Sell your house fast in Ozone Park, Queens.

Ozone Park is the neighborhood south of Woodhaven and west of the Aqueduct racetrack, with the A train running over Liberty Avenue, Cross Bay Boulevard heading down to Howard Beach and the Rockaways, and the Belt Parkway along the bottom. It was built between 1900 and 1950 as a working neighborhood of frame and brick two families on narrow lots, Italian for most of the century, and since the 1990s the center of Indo Guyanese and Indo Trinidadian Queens along Liberty Avenue, with Bangladeshi families on the north side. Nearly every house has a cellar apartment, a great many had a subprime mortgage in 2006, and most have been one family’s for thirty years.

The typical home value in Ozone Park is around $765,000, up roughly 4.7% over the past year, with houses averaging about 55 days on the market.

Foreclosures, filed in Queens Supreme Court

Ozone Park and South Ozone Park had among the highest foreclosure rates in New York City after 2008, with subprime loans written on two families whose rent rolls were never what the lender was told. Many of those loans are still on the books, modified once or twice, in default again, and somewhere on the Queens Supreme Court calendar. New York foreclosure is a court process and Queens is one of the slowest counties in the country. That delay is the opening. A house in default with a referee’s sale somewhere ahead still has equity in it, and a cash closing before the sale date pays the lender, stops the interest and the legal fees, and keeps the rest yours.

The cellar apartment, and the one in the garage

Thousands of Ozone Park cellars have a kitchen, a bathroom and a tenant, and the detached garages behind the two families have been converted too. A cellar is almost never a legal apartment in New York City and a garage apartment never is. The appraiser notes it, the lender wants it removed or documented, and the financed deal ends in its fourth week. We buy the house as its legal units, price the cellar and the garage as what they are, and the tenant and any Department of Buildings file come with the house to us.

Estates with heirs on Long Island and in Florida

The most common Ozone Park call is a parent’s house. Bought in 1965 or 1992, paid off, never changed. The children are in Nassau, Suffolk or Florida, there is a Queens 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 frame house under the siding

Ozone Park’s frame houses are a century old, under vinyl or aluminum siding, with the original framing and often the original wiring under a panel that was never sized for four kitchens. A frame house that has not been renovated has a list a lender’s inspector fills four pages with: knob and tube, a roof with layers, galvanized water lines, and a cellar that takes water. We buy frame houses as they stand, price the whole list in the offer, and do the work after closing.

Where listing still wins in Ozone Park

A renovated brick two family with legal units and market rate tenants on a quiet side street should be listed, and we will say so. Where a cash sale wins is the mortgage in default, the cellar or garage apartment the appraiser will flag, the estate full of belongings, the frame house with the four page inspection, the house under the A train, or the owner with a date that cannot move.

What we buy in Ozone Park

Frame and brick two and three families, houses with a cellar or garage apartment, houses under the elevated on Liberty Avenue, mixed use buildings on Liberty Avenue, 101st Avenue, Cross Bay and Rockaway Boulevards, houses with an open Department of Buildings violation, houses in foreclosure, estates in any condition, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. If you own something unusual, call anyway.

Liberty Avenue, the Cross Bay side, and South Ozone Park

Ozone Park is priced by the A train and the airport. The blocks along Liberty Avenue under the elevated take the train in their price. The side streets between Liberty and Rockaway Boulevard, toward Cross Bay, are the center of the market, frame and brick two families priced on the block and the cellar. South Ozone Park, from Rockaway Boulevard down to the Belt and over to the Aqueduct, takes the flight path and the parkway, and a house there is priced for both. 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 the 2006 mortgage and the frame house. Ozone Park had among the highest foreclosure rates in the city after 2008, and a great many of those loans are still on the books. The houses are a century old under vinyl siding, with the original wiring under a panel never sized for four kitchens, a roof with layers, and a cellar with a tenant. 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 subdivided two family with five households 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.

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Many Ozone Park homeowners also ask us how to sell a house in foreclosure in Ozone Park NY, sell an inherited home, or sell a house during divorce.