Williamsbridge, Bronx, NY
Sell your house fast in Williamsbridge, Bronx.
We buy Williamsbridge houses as-is for cash. Attached brick two families, frame three families, basement units, tenants in place, any condition.
$830,000
Median Williamsbridge sale
103 days
Avg market days
+5.6%
YoY change
About the area
Why Williamsbridge sellers call us.
Williamsbridge is the heart of the North Bronx house market, a grid of attached brick two families and frame three families under the elevated 2 and 5 trains on White Plains Road, running from Gun Hill Road up toward Wakefield and from the Bronx River east to Boston Road. The houses went up between 1905 and 1935 for the Italian and Irish families who followed the subway north, were bought by Jamaican, Trinidadian, Guyanese, and Ghanaian families from the 1970s on, and are now the buildings those families’ children are inheriting, with a basement unit almost every one of them has and almost none of them registered. We have been buying houses in the NY metro area since 2000, and Williamsbridge sellers call us because an attached brick two family on Barnes Avenue with a basement apartment, a tenant who stopped paying, and a Department of Buildings file full of violations is worth a great deal and almost impossible to sell to a bank as it stands. For background on the neighborhood, see this Williamsbridge community profile.
Nick York handles acquisitions for EZ Home Buyers, and Williamsbridge is a market he prices on the certificate of occupancy and the rent roll before anything else. A brick two family on Paulding Avenue with a legal layout and two paying tenants is a different asset than the same house with a cited basement and one rent, and both are different from a frame three family off Gun Hill Road that an estate has been carrying since the pandemic. If you are thinking about selling your house in Williamsbridge, 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 at the appraisal.
The basement unit, the C of O, and why financed buyers walk
A Williamsbridge two family is usually a three family in practice. A basement apartment for a relative or a tenant, an attic room with a kitchenette, a ground floor split in two: income on paper, a violation in the Department of Buildings file, and invisible to a financed buyer’s appraiser. Then the lender looks at a house that is a century old, with knob and tube wiring, a brick foundation that has shifted, a roof that has been layered rather than replaced, and a rent roll that includes a tenant who has not paid since the pandemic, and the loan gets declined. The house sits, the seller is told to legalize or remove the apartment, and the taxes and the water bill keep coming.
We close that gap. We buy with cash, we buy as-is, and the apartment, the violations, the rent roll, and the roof 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.
The Williamsbridge sellers we hear from most
Estates come first. Williamsbridge houses were bought by families who stayed forty and fifty years, and when a parent passes the children are often in Westchester, in Georgia or Florida, or back in Jamaica or Ghana 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 administrators constantly, we can wait out the Surrogate paperwork, and we buy inherited houses exactly as they sit, tenants included. If the estate is stuck because heirs cannot be found or will not agree, we have seen that before too, and we can explain what has worked.
Landlords are second. A two family with a basement unit is three rents on paper and a full time job in practice, and the city’s housing court makes a nonpaying tenant a year long project. When a landlord is done, we buy the building with tenants in place, at the actual rent roll, and handle everything after closing ourselves.
Owners behind on the mortgage are third. New York foreclosure is a court process and it moves slowly, which means there is usually still time to act. Selling during pre-foreclosure can protect your credit and recover equity foreclosure would take; our guide to stopping a foreclosure auction walks through how late in the process a sale still works.
Liens, violations, and the paperwork side of Williamsbridge
New York City sells unpaid taxes and water as tax liens, and the water bills on an occupied three family grow quickly. Add open Department of Buildings violations, ECB fines that have compounded for years, an HPD registration that was never filed, and a certificate of occupancy that describes a house with fewer units than it has, and a traditional sale becomes a maze. We deal with tax liens and title problems as part of the purchase. Our attorneys run the city searches and payoff letters every week, and our offer accounts for what has to be satisfied at closing.
What Williamsbridge houses are actually selling for
The median sale price in Williamsbridge is around $830,000, up roughly 5.6% over the past year, with houses averaging about 103 days on the market. Buyers priced out of Westchester and the rest of the city have discovered the 2 train, and a renovated brick two family with a legal layout sells quickly to an investor or a family that needs the rent. But the headline number assumes a house that can pass an appraisal. A century old frame with one paying 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 Williamsbridge
Attached and detached brick two families, frame two and three families, houses with basement units legal or not, single family houses, mixed use buildings on White Plains Road, Gun Hill Road, and Boston Road with a store below, and vacant lots. We do not buy cooperative apartments. Most of what we see in Williamsbridge is the attached brick two family with a basement story, occupied, but if you own something unusual, call us anyway and we will take a look.
How to reach us
Williamsbridge is part of our North Bronx coverage. Up White Plains Road we buy houses in Wakefield, to the south we can help you sell your house fast in Morris Park and in Soundview, and across the city 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 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. We have been operating across the NY metro area since 2000, and Williamsbridge 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 on a timeline that works for you.
Looking just beyond Williamsbridge? You can also sell your house fast in Wakefield NY or sell a house fast in Morris Park NY, and you can read about how we buy houses in Soundview NY.
Many Williamsbridge homeowners also ask us how to sell a house in probate in Williamsbridge NY, sell a hoarder house, or sell a house in foreclosure.
Recent Williamsbridge transaction
An Attached Brick Two Family on Barnes Avenue, Sold by an Administrator in Atlanta With a Cited Basement and a Tenant Who Stopped Paying
Her mother had bought the two family in 1978, five years after arriving from Kingston, and had lived downstairs and rented the upstairs and, eventually, the basement she had finished for a cousin. When her mother passed without a will, she was appointed administrator by the Bronx Surrogate's Court, lived in Atlanta, and inherited an upstairs tenant who paid, a basement tenant who had not paid since 2022, a Department of Buildings violation for the basement unit, and a roof her mother had been meaning to replace.nnShe listed it from Georgia. 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. The agent suggested she start the housing court case, close out the violation, and relist in a year. Meanwhile the estate was paying the taxes and the water bill for a building that produced one rent.nnNick York walked all three levels on her one trip to New York, with the tenants' permission, and sat down with her at the downstairs kitchen table with the violation, the rent roll, and the letters of administration. The offer accounted for the nonpaying tenant, the cited basement, the roof, and the reality of a building with one reliable rent. It was a real number for the building she actually owned, and the reasoning was written out.nnWe closed in five weeks, through counsel, with the money wired to the estate attorney's escrow. 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 flew home with a check and her mother's house off her shoulders. She said afterward that the part she appreciated most was flying up exactly once.
Common reasons Williamsbridge sellers call us.
Inherited a house from a parent who came in the 1970s
Managing a Bronx estate sale from Westchester, Georgia, or Jamaica is exhausting, and the building is full of a lifetime of belongings. We work with executors and administrators through the Surrogate process, buy the house exactly as it sits, and close when the estate is ready.
Tired landlord with a tenant who stopped paying
A Williamsbridge two family with a basement unit is a full time job, and housing court makes a nonpaying tenant a year long project. 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
Almost every Williamsbridge two family has one, and once the Department of Buildings 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.
Tax and water liens piling up
Unpaid taxes and water bills become city liens with punishing interest. We buy Williamsbridge houses carrying tax liens and clear them from the proceeds at closing. You do not have to pay them off first.
Behind on the mortgage
New York foreclosure is a court process and it moves slowly, which means there is usually still time to act. Selling before the auction can protect your credit and recover equity foreclosure would take.
DOB violations and ECB fines
Open violations and fines that have compounded for years will scare off financed buyers and their banks. They do not scare us. We buy with violations open and deal with the city after closing.
A store below on White Plains Road
A mixed use building under the el 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.
Divorce and a jointly owned house
When two people need to sell a Williamsbridge house and move on separately, a long listing helps nobody. We can close in as little as two weeks and split the proceeds however the parties have agreed.
Frequently asked questions about selling in Williamsbridge.
How do I sell my house fast in Williamsbridge?
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 seven to fourteen days out. No agents, no repairs, no fees, and no obligation to accept.
How fast can you close on a Williamsbridge 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. If you need longer, for example to finish probate, we set the closing date around your schedule.
My tenant has not paid since the pandemic. Do I have to evict them before selling?
No. We buy occupied Williamsbridge 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 never permitted and the city cited it. Is that a problem?
It is a problem for a financed buyer, because the appraiser and the lender will not count the unit. It is a line item for us. We buy the building as it is, price the unit honestly, and handle the Department of Buildings after closing.
There are tax and water liens on my Williamsbridge house. Can you still make an offer?
Yes. We buy Bronx houses carrying city tax and water liens regularly. The liens are paid from the sale proceeds at closing and our attorneys handle the payoff. You do not need to resolve them first.
I inherited a house in Williamsbridge and I live out of state. How does that work?
We handle the process remotely. We coordinate with the Bronx Surrogate's Court paperwork and your estate attorney, buy the house as it sits with tenants and belongings in place, and close when the estate is ready.
How do you decide what to offer for a Williamsbridge property?
We look at recent comparable sales on the surrounding blocks, the actual rent roll and which tenants pay, whether the units match the certificate of occupancy, the condition of the roof and systems, 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 Williamsbridge?
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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