We buy houses in Jersey City, NJ
Sell your house fast in Jersey City, NJ, for cash and as-is.
You can own a house in Jersey City and still feel stuck with it. The roof leaks on your two-family in the Heights. Your inherited home in Greenville needs work you can't afford. We buy houses for cash across the city, in the condition they're in today.
Tell us the address and what you need from the sale. We'll send a cash offer within 24 hours. You can leave the old furniture, skip the repairs and choose a settlement date that fits your move. There's no agent to hire, no commissions and no closing costs.
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Jersey City housing by the numbers
- 294,078
- Residents
- $566,900
- Median home value
- 1971
- Typical home built
- 27.9%
- Owner-occupied homes
Jersey City's median home value is $566,900, but that number doesn't fix a worn roof or replace old plumbing. A median year built of 1971 points to a housing stock where age can mean expensive upkeep. Only 27.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, so selling here often means dealing with tenants as well as repairs. We look at your building and its condition when making an offer.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
The kinds of Jersey City houses we buy
Jersey City has brownstones around Van Vorst Park and Hamilton Park, attached row houses, and smaller buildings with an apartment upstairs and another downstairs. In the Heights or Bergen-Lafayette, selling an older home can bring up the work you've put off for years. A flat roof, tired boiler or damp lower level can turn one inspection into a list of repairs. You don't have to start that work to get a cash offer from us.
A house near Journal Square has a different setting from one in Country Village, and we consider the property in front of us. Tell us about the layout, who lives there and any unfinished work. We buy single-family homes and small multifamily properties, including homes with empty units or belongings still inside. You can show us a kitchen with missing cabinets or rooms you stopped renovating. We price the work into the offer and take it from there.
The Jersey City situations we buy in
Repairs on an older attached house
On a Jersey City row house, a leaking flat roof or crumbling front steps can make the whole sale feel out of reach. You may have fixed the same problem more than once. Show us what's happening, including unfinished repairs. We can buy without asking you to spend another round of money first.
A rental in the Heights
Maybe you live downstairs and rent the upstairs apartment, or you've moved away and still manage the building. Repair calls and arranging access wear you down. We buy Jersey City rentals with tenants in place. Tell us about the leases and occupied units so we can work out the sale with you.
Historic house upkeep
Hamilton Park, Harsimus Cove and Paulus Hook have protected historic districts. Repairs to a property in a designated district can require city preservation approval before work starts. If restoring your house feels beyond your budget, you can sell it as-is. We take on the property and the work it needs after settlement.
Behind on the mortgage
Foreclosure in New Jersey goes through court. For a Jersey City house, the Hudson County sheriff runs the auction on Thursdays at 2 p.m. Reach out when the payments start slipping or when court papers arrive. Selling before the auction pays off your lender at settlement and stops the sale.
Water damage downstairs
Downtown Jersey City has dealt with repeated flooding. If your lower level has damaged flooring, damp walls or belongings you haven't cleared out, preparing for showings can feel like another repair project. Tell us where the water entered and what remains damaged. We buy the house with that damage still there.
An inherited home in Greenville
Sorting a parent's house while paying the bills is a lot to carry. Years of belongings, rooms nobody uses, repairs nobody did. We can make an offer without a cleanout. Once the estate paperwork is ready for the sale, you choose the settlement date and take what you want.
How selling for cash works in Jersey City
Call us or fill out the form with your Jersey City address. We review the house and send a cash offer within 24 hours. If you accept, a title company handles settlement, checks the title and arranges the lender payoff. You pick the date. We can close in 30 days or less, or give you more time to pack and move.
New Jersey foreclosures go through court. The lender's attorney files the case, and the sheriff sells the house at auction if it isn't resolved. Hudson County auctions run on Thursdays, twice a month, at 2 p.m. They're held in the Jury Room on the 4th floor of the Hudson County Administration Building, 595 Newark Avenue in Jersey City. The sheriff posts the dates and property listings on its website.
The sheriff has to post the sale notice at the sheriff's office and at the house at least three weeks before the auction. The notice also runs in the newspapers once a week for four weeks. If your Jersey City home is listed, send us the notice and the sale date. Selling before that date pays off the lender at settlement and stops the auction. The sooner you call, the more room we have.
How it works
Three steps to a cash sale.
Tell us about the house
Fill out the short form or give us a call. Share the address, the condition and what's going on. That's all we need to get started.
Get your cash offer
We review the house and send you a fair cash offer within 24 hours. You'll see how we got to the number, and you're under no obligation to take it.
Close on your date
You pick the closing date. We can close in 30 days or less, or later if you need more time. A title company handles the paperwork and you walk away with cash.
Run the numbers on a Jersey City sale
Our cash offer will come in under what your house would list for. Anyone who tells you otherwise is setting up a renegotiation after you have already committed.
What counts is what you walk away with. The median home in Jersey City is worth about $566,900. List a house like that and a six percent commission is $34,014 before you pay for a single repair. Add whatever the buyer's inspection asks you to fix, plus months of mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities while it sits. Then put our number next to that.
Sometimes listing still comes out ahead, and when it does, you should list. We'd rather tell you that than buy a house you end up wishing you had kept on the market.
A simpler way to sell your Jersey City house
Selling with a real estate agent
- Six percent in commissions off your sale price
- Repairs, cleanup and staging before it lists
- Showings with strangers walking through your home
- Two to three months on the market, then a wait to close
- Deals that fall through when the buyer's loan does
Selling to MalBuysHouses Nationwide
- A cash offer within 24 hours
- Close in 30 days or less, on your schedule
- No repairs and no cleanup. Sell it as-is
- No agent commissions and no closing costs
- One honest offer and no pressure to take it
What sellers say about working with Mal
"Malachi saved us from losing everything. We closed in 9 days and walked away with cash in hand. He was honest the whole way through — no pressure, no games."
"I was three months behind and didn't know what to do. Memorable Home Buyers explained everything clearly and made a fair offer the same day I called. Highly recommend."
"Malachi was a pleasure to work with. We inherited a home that we could not pay the repairs on. He gave us a fair price, and closed exactly when he said he would. Was a quick, easy and very convenient process."
"I had only 8 days left to stop my foreclosure. Malachi came in and showed me what options I had left, and once we agreed on me selling he purchased the home and was able to prevent that stuff on my record. I appreciate him for helping us."
"Me and my husband had a property we just didn't want to deal with anymore. It had leaks in the roof, needed a new water heater and a bunch of other stuff we didn't have the energy to fix anymore. Mal gave us a fair cash offer and made our downsizing process simple"
Our promise to you
What you can hold us to when you sell
You deal with Mal from the first call to closing day. These are the four things we promise on every house.
The number holds
The offer we agree on is the number on your settlement statement, as long as the house matches what you told us on the phone. If the walkthrough turns up something big that never came up, we show you exactly what changed before anything moves forward.
A contract you can read
Our purchase agreement is written in plain English. Take it home, show it to family, and ask us about any line before you sign.
You pick the date
Tell us the closing date you need on the first call. If we can't make it, we'll say so right then, before you've committed to anything.
The truth, even if we lose the deal
If your house would sell for more with an agent, we'll tell you. Some people don't need a cash buyer, and we'd rather you hear that from us.
Where we buy in Jersey City
- The Heights
- Journal Square
- Greenville
- Bergen-Lafayette
- West Side
- Downtown
- Hamilton Park
- Van Vorst Park
- Harsimus Cove
- Paulus Hook
- Country Village
- McGinley Square
Nearby areas we also buy in
Jersey City sellers ask us these
Straight answers, no sales pitch.
Get your cash offer today.
Send us the address and a rough idea of the condition. You'll get a fair cash offer with no obligation, and there's nothing to fix or clean first.