Throggs Neck, Bronx, NY
Sell your house fast in Throggs Neck, Bronx.
We buy Throggs Neck houses as-is for cash. Waterfront capes, Edgewater Park bungalows, flooded basements, estates, any condition.
$840,000
Median Throggs Neck sale
88 days
Avg market days
-8.9%
YoY change
About the area
Why Throggs Neck sellers call us.
Throggs Neck is the Bronx that looks like a Long Island shore town, a peninsula with water on three sides, detached houses on their own lots, and families who have been here for three generations. Country Club and the blocks off East Tremont Avenue have the brick capes and colonials of the postwar build out. Edgewater Park and Silver Beach are something that exists almost nowhere else in the city: cooperative bungalow colonies where residents own their houses but not the land, on private streets, with their own rules, which makes selling one a puzzle that stops most buyers cold. Schuylerville, toward the Bruckner, has the older frame houses and two families. Sandy in 2012 put the East River and the Sound into basements across the peninsula, and the September 2021 storm did it again in the low blocks. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and Throggs Neck sellers call us because a waterfront cape with a flood history, a basement that has been wet twice, and a family that has owned it since 1958 is a hard sale to a bank and a normal one to us. For background on the neighborhood, see this Throggs Neck community profile.
Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and Throggs Neck is a market he reads with the flood map open and a working knowledge of how Edgewater Park and Silver Beach actually transfer. A brick colonial in Country Club on high ground is a different sale than a cape on Pennyfield Avenue three blocks from the water, and both are different from an Edgewater Park bungalow that comes with a share certificate and a board instead of a deed. If you are thinking about selling your house in Throggs Neck, you deserve a number that reflects which of those you own, with the math shown. No agent fees, no repair demands, no financing that collapses when the flood certification comes back.
Water, the flood map, and why financed buyers walk away
After Sandy and again after 2021, the federal flood maps put much of the Throggs Neck shoreline in zones where a lender requires flood insurance and will not waive it. The insurance quote alone has ended plenty of sales. Then the appraiser walks downstairs and finds a basement that was finished as an apartment, flooded, gutted, and rebuilt without permits, and the lender pulls back further. The houses themselves are seventy years old, with cast iron drains, original electrical panels, and roofs that have been layered rather than replaced.
We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and we carry the flood insurance ourselves after closing, so the flood map is a line item in our offer instead of a reason the deal dies. A basement with a water line on the wall, a bulkhead that needs work, a furnace replaced by a cousin and never inspected, none of it stops us. Our guide to selling a house with water damage covers how we price it.
Edgewater Park and Silver Beach: selling a house without a deed
In the bungalow colonies you own the house and a share in the cooperative that owns the land, and a sale means a board application, a transfer of the share, and a buyer the board will accept. Banks mostly will not lend on them, which limits buyers to cash and keeps prices below what the houses would bring on fee simple lots. We have bought in both colonies, we know the boards’ processes, and we make the application ourselves. If you own a bungalow in Edgewater Park or Silver Beach and the agents keep telling you it is unsellable, call us.
The Throggs Neck sellers we hear from most
Estates come first. Throggs Neck houses were bought by Italian and Irish families who stayed fifty and sixty years, and when a parent passes the children are often in Westchester or Connecticut or Florida with a Bronx County Surrogate’s Court probate to manage from a distance and a house full of a lifetime of belongings. We work with executors and heirs constantly, we can wait out the Surrogate paperwork, and we buy inherited houses exactly as they sit, furniture and all.
Flood weary owners are second. Some rebuilt after Sandy with insurance money or city help and do not want to face it again. Some never fully rebuilt, and the basement has been a concrete box for a decade. Some simply saw the new insurance bill and did the math. We buy houses with flood history, repaired or not, and we price them for what they are.
Owners ready to downsize are third. The house is too big, the stairs are too much, and the idea of showings is what has kept the move from happening. We visit once, make a written offer, and let you pick the closing date. Our guide to selling when it is time to downsize covers how we make that work. Landlords with a two family in Schuylerville and a tenant who stopped paying round out the list, and we buy those with tenants in place.
Liens, the tax lien sale, and the paperwork side of Throggs Neck
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. Add open Department of Buildings violations on a basement rebuild or a bulkhead, an ECB judgment that became a lien, a certificate of occupancy that describes a house without the finished basement, and, for houses rebuilt under city programs, restrictions that follow the deed, and the title report runs long. We deal with tax liens, code violations, 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, 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 Throggs Neck houses are actually selling for
The median sale price across Throggs Neck and Country Club is around $840,000, up roughly -8.9% over the past year, with houses averaging about 88 days on the market. Waterfront and Country Club houses on high ground draw buyers from Westchester and Queens, and a renovated colonial with a dry basement sells quickly. But the headline number assumes a dry lot and a house that can pass an appraisal. A cape near the water with a water line in the basement, a roof at the end of its life, and a new flood zone designation does not get the median. It gets a flood insurance quote that scares off every financed buyer, price cuts, 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 Throggs Neck
Detached and semi detached one and two family houses, waterfront and near water houses with or without flood history, Edgewater Park and Silver Beach bungalows, houses with basement units legal or not, mixed use buildings on East Tremont Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard, condos, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments in buildings, though we do buy in the bungalow colonies. Most of what we see in Throggs Neck is the family house held for decades with a water story, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.
How to reach us
Throggs Neck is the eastern end of our Bronx coverage. Inland we buy houses in Morris Park and in Soundview, across the Throgs Neck Bridge we can help you sell your house fast in Whitestone, and up the Sound we buy in New Rochelle. 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 your 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, fifteen minutes from Throggs Neck over the bridge. We have been operating across the NY metro area since 2000. 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 Throggs Neck? You can also sell your house fast in Morris Park NY or sell a house fast in Soundview NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Whitestone NY.
Many Throggs Neck homeowners also ask us how to sell a house during divorce, sell a rental property as a tired landlord, or sell a house with bad tenants.
Recent Throggs Neck transaction
A Cape on Pennyfield Avenue, Sold Twelve Years After Sandy Filled the Basement
The owner had bought the cape in 1979 for the water, raised two children in it, and finished the basement himself in the 1990s as a den with a small bedroom for his mother. In October 2012 the Sound came up the street and filled the basement to the ceiling. Federal help paid for the gutting. He replaced the boiler and the panel with a cousin who was an electrician and never had the work inspected. The basement stayed a concrete box with a dehumidifier running in the corner.nnTwelve years later he was seventy six and ready to move to his daughter's in Connecticut. Two agents had walked through. Both said the same thing: the flood map put the house in a zone where a buyer's lender would require flood insurance, the quote would be high, the basement rebuild would come up at inspection, and the roof would too. One suggested spending thirty thousand dollars first. He did not want to spend it on a house he was leaving.nnNick York walked the house on a weekday afternoon and went to the basement first. He looked at the water line, the panel, the boiler, and the roof from the yard. The offer accounted for the flood zone and the insurance a future owner would carry, the unpermitted rebuild, the roof, and the reality of a lot two hundred feet from the water. The reasoning was written out on one page.nnWe closed in three weeks at his attorney's office on East Tremont Avenue. The insurance and the open permits became our problem, and he left for Connecticut the following month with cash and no more storms to watch. He said afterward that nobody else had gone to the basement first.
Common reasons Throggs Neck sellers call us.
A basement that flooded in Sandy or in 2021
Rebuilt or not, a flood history and a hazard zone designation scare off financed buyers and their lenders. We buy with cash, price the flood risk honestly, and carry the insurance ourselves after closing.
An Edgewater Park or Silver Beach bungalow
A share certificate, a board, and no bank willing to lend stop most buyers cold. We have bought in both colonies, we know the boards, and we make the application ourselves.
Inherited a house from parents who bought it in the 1950s
Managing a Bronx County Surrogate sale from Westchester, Connecticut, or Florida is exhausting, and the house is full of a lifetime of belongings. 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.
Ready to leave the water behind
After two storms and a decade of insurance renewals, you are done. We visit once, make a written offer, and let you pick a closing date that lines up with the move.
A basement rebuild that was never permitted
A basement fixed in a hurry after the storm without permits kills financed deals at the appraisal. It is a line item for us. We buy the house as it is and handle the city after closing.
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 Throggs Neck 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.
An open permit on a bulkhead, a dock, or a raised house
Open city and state permits from waterfront work or a storm rebuild scare off buyers and their banks. They do not scare us. We buy with permits open and close them out ourselves after closing.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Throggs Neck.
How do I sell my house fast in Throggs Neck?
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 Throggs Neck house?
In most cases we close in two to four weeks from the offer. We pay cash, so there is no bank timeline and no flood elevation certificate holding things up. New York closings happen at an attorney's office with your own lawyer present. Edgewater Park and Silver Beach sales add the board's timeline, which we manage.
My basement flooded in Sandy and was rebuilt without permits. Does that change your offer?
It is a factor we price in, not a reason to walk away. We look at what was repaired and how, the current flood zone, and the insurance a future owner will carry. Financed buyers struggle with all three. We pay cash and carry the insurance ourselves, so we can still make a real offer.
I own a bungalow in Edgewater Park. Agents say it is unsellable. Is it?
No. It is unsellable to a financed buyer, because banks mostly will not lend on a share in the cooperative. We pay cash, we have bought in Edgewater Park and Silver Beach before, and we handle the board application ourselves.
I inherited a house in Throggs Neck and I live out of state. How does that work?
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 with whatever is inside, 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.
There are open DOB violations from the basement work or the bulkhead. Is that a problem?
Not for us. Violations transfer with the property and we resolve them after closing. An ECB judgment that has become a lien is paid from the sale proceeds at closing. You do not need to clear anything before we can make an offer.
How do you decide what to offer for a Throggs Neck property?
We look at recent comparable sales on the surrounding blocks, the distance to the water and the flood history of the lot, the condition of the house and basement, 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 Throggs Neck?
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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