We Buy Houses in Hollywood, As They Sit

Hollywood sits in southeastern Broward, midway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, laid out in the 1920s by Joseph Wesley Young around the ten-acre circle that still carries his name. The houses are among the oldest we buy: the median Hollywood home was built in 1969 and three of every four went up before 1980. Hollywood Lakes, east of Federal Highway between Washington and Johnson Streets, is the city's oldest neighborhood; Hollywood Hills, Driftwood, Beverly Park and Lawn Acres each have their own civic association, and we buy in all of them.

Old houses in a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone mean old roofs, old wiring and, often, an addition somebody never permitted. Hollywood records code-enforcement fines as liens in the Broward County public records and treats past-due water and sewer bills as statutory liens, so the City's lien search, run by Treasury Services, matters more here than in a newer city. A standard residential search costs $160 and takes eight to ten business days; expedited is $243 for one to two.

The typical Hollywood owner has been in the house since 2011 and more than a third of owner households are headed by someone 65 or older, which is why so many of these houses reach us through an estate, like the Hollywood case on this page. We buy them as they sit, liens and open permits included, work the City ourselves after closing, and pay the estate's attorney at closing.