Wakefield, Bronx, NY
Sell your house fast in Wakefield, Bronx.
We buy Wakefield houses as-is for cash. Attached brick two families, three families, basement units, tenants in place, any condition.
$750,000
Median Wakefield sale
77 days
Avg market days
+3.4%
YoY change
About the area
Why Wakefield sellers call us.
Wakefield is the top of the Bronx and the end of the 2 train, a neighborhood of attached and semi attached brick houses that runs from Woodlawn Cemetery to the Mount Vernon line at 241st Street. Most of it was built between 1920 and 1940 as two and three family houses for families who worked in Manhattan and wanted a yard, and most of it is still two and three family houses, now owned by the Jamaican and wider Caribbean families who made Wakefield their own from the 1970s on. White Plains Road under the el is the commercial spine, the side streets are dense and residential, and a very large share of the houses have a basement apartment that has paid the mortgage for a generation without ever appearing on a certificate of occupancy. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and Wakefield sellers call us because a three family with three rents, one of them illegal, 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 Wakefield community profile.
Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and Wakefield is a market he prices on the rent roll and the paperwork as much as the bricks. An attached three family on Barnes Avenue with three paying tenants is a different asset than the same house with one paying tenant and a basement unit the city has cited, and both are different from a semi attached two family near 241st Street that an estate has been carrying since the pandemic. If you are thinking about selling your house in Wakefield, you deserve a real number with the reasoning written out, from a buyer who has pulled the violations and walked every floor. No agent fees, no repair demands, no financing that dies when the appraiser goes downstairs.
Three families, illegal basements, and why financed buyers walk
A Wakefield house is usually more units than the city thinks it is. The basement apartment, the attic room with a kitchenette, the ground floor that was split in two for a cousin: all of it is income, none of it is legal, and a financed buyer’s appraiser will not count any of it. Then the lender looks at a rent roll that includes a tenant who has not paid since 2021, a Housing Preservation violation from the last inspection, and an ECB judgment that has quietly become a lien, and the loan gets declined. The house sits, the seller is told to legalize things that may not be legalizable, and the taxes keep coming.
We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and the extra units, 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 Wakefield is where we use it every week.
The Wakefield sellers we hear from most
Tired landlords come first. A three family in Wakefield is a full time job, and many of the owners inherited the job from a parent who bought the house in 1978 and managed it with a clipboard. 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.
Estates are second. A parent passes and leaves a house near Nereid Avenue to children who are in Mount Vernon, in Westchester, or in Florida, with a Bronx County Surrogate’s Court probate to manage and three units 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, we walk through what New York withholds from nonresident sellers at closing so the settlement statement holds no surprises.
And then there are the owners being worked by the wholesalers. The north Bronx gets more cold calls and door knocks from house flippers than almost anywhere in the borough, 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 Wakefield
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 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, 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 Wakefield houses are actually selling for
The median sale price in Wakefield is around $750,000, up roughly 3.4% over the past year, with houses averaging about 77 days on the market. Investors and first time buyers priced out of Westchester have kept demand steady, and a three family with a legal layout and paying tenants sells quickly. But the headline number assumes exactly that. A three family with one nonpaying tenant, a basement unit the city has cited, and a roof at the end of its life 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 Wakefield
Attached and semi attached two to four family houses, single family rowhouses, houses with basement or attic units legal or not, mixed use buildings on White Plains Road and East 233rd Street with a store below and apartments above, condos, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. Most of what we see in Wakefield is the attached brick three family, occupied, with a basement story, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.
How to reach us
Wakefield is the northern end of our Bronx coverage and sits on the Westchester line. We buy houses in Soundview and across the rest of the borough, and just over the line we can help you sell your house fast in Mount Vernon and in Yonkers. 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 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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield? You can also sell your house fast in Soundview NY or sell a house fast in Mount Vernon NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Yonkers NY.
Many Wakefield homeowners also ask us how to sell an inherited home in Wakefield NY, sell a house during divorce, or sell a rental property as a tired landlord.
Recent Wakefield transaction
An Attached Three Family on Barnes Avenue, Sold With One Paying Tenant and a Cited Basement
Her father had bought the three family in 1981, two years after arriving from Kingston, and had run it himself until his stroke. She took over the building from her apartment in Mount Vernon and learned within a year what he had been carrying: a top floor tenant who paid, a second floor tenant who had not paid since the pandemic and knew the housing court calendar by heart, and a basement apartment her father had built in 1990 that the city had finally cited after a neighbor complained.nnShe listed it. The first buyer's appraiser refused to count the basement and flagged the rent roll. The lender declined. The second buyer wanted the nonpaying tenant gone and a thirty thousand dollar credit for the roof and the boiler. The agent suggested she start the eviction, close out the violation, and relist in a year.nnNick York walked all four levels on a Saturday with the tenants' permission and sat down with her at the top floor kitchen table with the violations and the rent roll printed out. The offer accounted for the nonpaying tenant, the cited basement, the roof, the boiler, and the reality of a building with one reliable rent. It was not the number an agent had quoted her for a fully legal, fully paying building. It was a real number for the building she actually owned, and it came with the reasoning written out.nnWe closed in four weeks at her attorney's office on East Gun Hill Road. Both tenants kept their homes with a new owner responsible for the building, the violation and the housing court case transferred to us, and she walked away with cash and her father's building off her shoulders. She said afterward that the part she appreciated most was that nobody asked her to fix the building before they would buy it.
Common reasons Wakefield sellers call us.
Tired landlord with three rents and one that pays
A Wakefield three family is a full time job, and a tenant who stopped paying makes it a lawsuit. We buy occupied buildings at the actual rent roll, nonpaying tenants included, and take the whole situation off your hands at closing.
A basement apartment the city has cited
Most Wakefield houses have one, and once HPD or DOB has cited it, financed deals are over. It is a line item for us. We buy the house as it is, tenant included, and handle the city after closing.
Inherited a house from a parent who bought it in the 1970s
Managing a Bronx County Surrogate sale from Westchester or another state, with three units of tenants and belongings, is exhausting. We work with executors and heirs through the process, buy the building exactly as it sits, and close at an attorney's office when the estate is ready.
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 Wakefield 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.
Wholesalers and door knockers pressuring you
The north Bronx gets more cold calls than almost anywhere in the borough, 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.
HPD violations and emergency repair charges
Open violations and repair charges the city billed back to you scare off buyers and their banks. They do not scare us. We buy with violations open, pay the charges 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 White Plains Road 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 Wakefield.
How do I sell my house fast in Wakefield?
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 a Wakefield 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 tenant has not paid in two years. Do I have to evict them before selling?
No. We buy occupied Wakefield 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.
The basement apartment was cited by the city. Can you still buy the house?
Yes. That is one of the most common Wakefield situations we see. A financed buyer's lender will not count the unit and will often decline the loan once it is cited. We price the unit honestly, buy the house as it is, and handle the city after closing.
I inherited a house in Wakefield 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 building as it sits with tenants and belongings in place, 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 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 a Wakefield property?
We look at recent comparable sales on the surrounding blocks, the actual rent roll and which tenants pay, the condition of the building, whether the units match the certificate of occupancy, 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 Wakefield?
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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