Streets in Amityville we have bought on
A sample of what we have bought in Amityville: a five-bedroom on sunshine lane; a house on washington avenue.
Street names only, never house numbers. The sellers are entitled to their privacy, and a property address in a marketing page is a small betrayal of somebody who trusted you with a difficult situation.
A small footprint, on purpose
Knowing a market means knowing what a specific street trades for, which trades are worth doing, and which contractor can actually get to a job in Amityville next week. That knowledge does not scale nationally, and companies that claim it does are usually assigning your contract to somebody who does have it, after taking a cut.
So we buy in Nassau and Suffolk and nowhere else. It means we say no to houses outside the area, and it means the number we give you in Amityville is built on comparable sales we have actually seen rather than on a formula.
What actually moves the number on a street
Not the town-wide average. What matters is what houses like yours, on your street or the two beside it, actually closed at recently, and what condition they were in when they did.
In Amityville that means paying attention to things a spreadsheet misses. Which blocks back onto Broadway, which streets took water in the last bad storm, where the Amityville Union Free School District boundary runs, and which stretches have had enough recent renovation to pull comparable sales up.
We buy in every part of Amityville
There is no part of Amityville we decline, and no condition we decline either. Occupied, vacant, mid-probate, tenanted, fire damaged, hoarded, condemned. Those are the houses we look for rather than the ones we avoid.
If you are outside Amityville but still in Nassau or Suffolk, call anyway. The boundary that matters to us is the county line, not the town line.
Why local knowledge changes the number
A five-bedroom on Sunshine Lane. A house on Washington Avenue. Both in Amityville, bought and paid for by us.
Amityville is roughly 9,500 people in Suffolk County, ZIP 11701, and the housing stock is mostly colonial, victorian, cape cod. Around Broadway and the Triangle, most of it is old enough that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. The Amityville stop pulls buyers who commute, which supports the good houses and does very little for the ones that need a roof. We have been buying across Suffolk County for 15+ years. We know what the Amityville Union Free School District does to a resale price, which blocks still have oil tanks in the ground, and what a house like yours is actually worth here.
What we actually do with them afterward
They get rebuilt and sold, or occasionally held. Either way the house comes back into use, which is worth something to an Amityville street where an empty property has been sitting for a year or two.
We are straightforward about being a business rather than a charity. But the model only works if the houses actually get renovated to a standard somebody will buy, which is a different incentive from an operation whose only product is a contract to be sold on.
What makes Amityville a market we work
Partly the housing stock, which is mostly colonial and victorian of an age where boilers, roofs and electrical services are reaching the end of their lives. Partly proximity, which is what lets us schedule work without a premium for the travel.
And partly that Amityville is a place where people stay. Houses here are frequently owned for thirty or forty years and then sold by the family rather than by the original owner, and that particular situation, an estate or a move into care, is most of what we handle.
The boundaries and landmarks we work around in Amityville
Broadway, the Triangle, Merrick Road. These are not decoration on a page. Proximity to each of them changes what a house is worth, and in different directions depending on which one and how close.
The Amityville Union Free School District boundary is the other line that matters more than most people outside the area realize, because it moves values in ways that do not show up in a town-wide average at all. Two houses a few hundred feet apart can sit on different sides of it.
Common questions
Do you buy in every neighborhood in Amityville?
Yes. There is no part of the town we decline and no condition we decline.
My house is not in Amityville. Can you still buy it?
Almost certainly, as long as it is on Long Island. We work Nassau and Suffolk and nowhere else, but we work all of both.
Will you put my address on your website?
No. We name streets at most, and never house numbers. If you would rather we did not mention the street either, say so and we will not.