Takes about two minutes. Or call
(313) 710-6129 — we answer.
How selling to us works in Rochester
Tell us about the house
The address is enough to start in Rochester. If you know the condition, the roof age or
what is owed, that gets us to a firmer number faster.
Get a written offer in 24 hours
A real number on paper, with the comparable sales and the repair estimate it came
from. No obligation and nothing to sign.
You pick the closing date
Seven days if you need it, ninety if you do not. We buy as-is, cover standard closing
costs, and take the house with whatever is still in it.
The Rochester market, by the numbers
From our own transaction records and HUD data for Rochester ZIP codes.
Updated 2026-09-14.
Rochester · NY
4 bed / 2 bathTypical home we buy
1,614 sq ftMedian size
1920Median year built
14 daysMedian days on market
$1,720/moHUD Fair Market Rent, 3BR
9ZIP codes we buy in
Across the Rochester properties in our records, the median time on market is 14 days. A cash sale skips that window entirely — there is no listing period, no showings, and no financing contingency that can collapse at day 30.
The typical Rochester home we look at was built in 1920, which means roof age, original electrical, and HVAC are the items that most often blow up a retail contract after inspection. We buy those as-is and price the repairs into the offer instead of asking you to make them.
HUD sets Fair Market Rent for a 3-bedroom in Rochester at $1,720/month. That number is why we can pay cash here: many of these homes work as long-term rentals for us, so we are not dependent on reselling quickly to make the numbers work.
Rochester combines some of the oldest stock in our footprint with among the highest effective property tax rates in the country. On a vacant or inherited house, that tax bill is the clock you are actually racing.
Local viewRochester, New YorkPhoto: Patrick Ashley · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped and resized for web
Winter vacancy is the most common damage we see
A vacant house through one heating season is how most of the water damage in this region happens. Burst supply lines are routine for us and disqualifying for a mortgage buyer.
Open code citations and the inspection cycle
Open citations follow the property and several municipalities escrow funds at closing until they are corrected. We treat that as a normal line item rather than a surprise at the table.
ZIP codes we buy in around Rochester
146061460814609146111461314615146171462014621
That is 9 ZIP codes across Rochester — including 14606, 14608, 14609 and 14611. Not listed? We still look at it — New York deals outside these ZIPs come through regularly.
What homes are actually selling for in Rochester
Based on 281 recorded sales in Rochester. We publish this because the alternative is asking you to trust a number with nothing behind it.
Recorded sales · Rochester
$170,000Median sale price
$79Median per sq ft
281Sales analysed
—Median year built
Half of those sales landed between $110,000 and $260,000. That spread is the most useful number here: it is why a cash offer on a Rochester house cannot be quoted from the address alone.
Home size
Median sale price
Sales
2-bedroom
$237,500
8
3-bedroom
$237,750
68
4-bedroom
$180,000
95
Recorded sales in our own comparable-sales database for these ZIP
codes. Sale prices reflect what buyers paid for homes in their condition at the time —
they are not an appraisal of your property and not an offer.
Rochester by ZIP code
We underwrite by ZIP, not by city. Here is what each one looks like in our data:
ZIP
Median sale
Per sq ft
Sales
HUD 3BR rent
14606
$150,000
$83
27
$1,720
14608
$154,777
$53
25
$1,720
14609
$225,000
$119
50
$1,780
14611
$133,000
$52
32
$1,810
14613
$148,400
$62
36
$1,600
14615
$191,450
$94
18
$1,820
14617
$300,000
$180
17
—
14620
$301,500
$153
28
—
14621
$106,000
$45
48
$1,720
Look at the gap between 14620 ($301,500) and 14621 ($106,000). Same city, roughly 184% apart. Anyone quoting you a citywide price per square foot is not looking at your block.
Sale figures are medians of recorded sales in our comparable-sales
database; rent is HUD Fair Market Rent for that ZIP. A dash means we do not hold enough data
for that ZIP to publish a number we would stand behind.
Neighborhoods we buy in around Rochester
Also buying in
We buy across Rochester, including these. We do not hold a mapped boundary for them, so rather than estimate a median we show the ZIP each one sits in — and the per-ZIP medians are in the table further up this page.
Browncroft 14609
Charlotte 14617
East Avenue 14620
Maplewood 14615
South Wedge 14620
Neighborhood boundaries from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Sale figures are medians of recorded sales in our own comparable-sales database for those boundaries — they describe the area, not your house, and they are not an offer.
What that means for an offer in Rochester
Cash offers are not a mystery — they are four lines of arithmetic. Run against the median Rochester sale, it looks like this.
After-repair value — what it sells for once renovated
$170,000
− Repairs to get it there
−$20,500
− Holding, closing and resale costs
−$17,000
− The buyer's margin
−$20,500
= Illustrative cash offer
$112,000
This is an illustration, not an offer on your house. Condition drives the second line and the second line drives everything else. We will show you our repair estimate item by item rather than presenting a single take-it-or-leave-it figure.
If your house is in good condition, this is also the calculation that tells you to
list it instead. We will say so. The full breakdown of
how the offer is built covers where the line falls.
How a closing actually works in New York
New York closings customarily involve attorneys on both sides, and the state has some of the highest effective property tax rates in the country — on a vacant or inherited property that carrying cost is usually the real deadline.
On our side the sequence is the same every time: title search, payoff figures ordered on
any existing mortgage, liens and municipal balances identified, then funds and deed recorded.
Nothing about a cash sale skips title work — what it skips is the lender, the appraisal
and the financing contingency, which is where most retail contracts on Rochester houses
actually die.
General information about how these transactions typically proceed, not
legal or tax advice. Your closing agent or attorney is the authority on your specific file.
Our offer versus listing it in Rochester
Listing with an agent
Our cash offer
Agent commission
About 6% of the sale price
None
Repairs before closing
Buyer and appraiser both have a say
None — we buy as-is
Cleaning and showings
Open houses and strangers in the house
Neither
Time to close
14 days on market, then another 30–45 to close
7–14 days once title is clear
Financing falls through
The most common reason a sale collapses
No lender involved
Closing costs
Customarily paid by the seller
We cover the standard ones
Certainty of the number
Offers can be renegotiated after inspection
The written number is the number
The listing timeline is the median days on market for Rochester in our own records, plus a typical financed closing. Commission is the customary 6% and varies by agreement.
Three days to change your mind
If you accept an offer, you have three days after signing to walk away for any reason
at all, with nothing owed and no explanation needed. We would rather lose a deal than
have someone feel cornered into one.
Sometimes you should not sell to us
If the house is in good shape and you are not in a hurry, listing it will almost
always net you more than we can offer. That is not us being modest — we buy at a
discount because we take on the repairs, the carrying costs and the risk.
We will tell you when that is your situation. It is a faster conversation for both of
us than pretending otherwise.
Why Rochester sellers call us
Most people who reach out are not shopping for the highest number — they are solving
something with a deadline attached. These pages cover what changes in each case:
Every offer on this site is underwritten by a person, not a form. If the
numbers do not work for you, say so and I will tell you what would.
Common questions from Rochester sellers
There are unpaid water bills and code violations. Is that a problem?
No. Water and sewer balances and code citations attach to the property and are paid out of the proceeds at closing. They are a normal line item for us and a deal-breaker for a lender.
How fast can you close in Rochester?
Typically 7-14 days once title is clear, because there is no lender underwriting. For comparison, the median Rochester listing in our records sits 14 days before it is even under contract, and closing runs another 30-45 days after that.
The house has been vacant through a winter. Do you still want it?
Yes. Frozen and burst pipes are one of the most common things we see, and the resulting water damage is exactly what removes retail buyers from the pool.
Am I obligated to accept the offer?
No. The offer is written, free, and yours to walk away from. We would rather you compare it against a listing than feel pushed into it.
Get your Rochester cash offer
Send the address and we will come back within a day with a written number and the comps
it came from. If listing would net you more, we will tell you that instead.
Takes about two minutes. Or call
(313) 710-6129 — we answer.
Also from Restar
Want the data behind all of this?
Restar Acquisitions is the acquisitions arm of Restar — a housing-market analytics
platform tracking 180+ metrics across every U.S. market, with composite scores and 12-month
price forecasts. The numbers on this page come from the same work.
