Bergen County, New Jersey
An inherited house in Edgewater, handled with care.
When your family sells the property to us, we handle the probate at the Bergen County Surrogate's Court and can cover its costs, including the family's estate attorney fees. We speak with each heir separately and privately, and we take the property as it stands.
Inherited property in Edgewater
What families find in Edgewater.
Edgewater is a thin strip of a borough with 3.5 miles of Hudson shoreline, squeezed between the river and the Palisades cliff, with River Road running its full length. Incorporated under the name Undercliff in 1894, it adopted its current name in 1899. Housing comes in two kinds: condominiums, rental towers and townhouses built since the 1980s on former factory land by the water, and older houses under the cliff on River Road's western side. An inherited property here can be either.
Condos on old factory land
Starting in the 1960s and especially the early 1980s, developers turned Edgewater's industrial waterfront into condominiums and townhouses. A parent's unit brings association rules, monthly fees that keep running through the estate, and paperwork the association will want at sale. Give us the building name and the family will get a plain answer on whether we can help.
Under the cliff
West of River Road, older houses sit on hillside lots below the Palisades; the Undercliff section in the north end started as a fishing colony. These homes often carry years of postponed maintenance. When one passes to heirs living elsewhere, Gembrook can take the house in its present state and work through the estate steps with the family.
Storm exposure
Hurricane Sandy struck Edgewater's riverfront in 2012, and the storm helped ruin the old Binghamton ferryboat, which was dismantled five years later. Property near the river can bring flood-zone and insurance matters that an executor must handle while the estate is open. We look at flood status ourselves and don't require repairs from the estate.
Probate for a Edgewater property
The Bergen County Surrogate's Court, handled for you.
In New Jersey, an estate is opened in the county where the person who passed away lived. For Bergen County that's the Bergen County Surrogate's Court in Hackensack. With a will, the executor is appointed there; without one, an administrator is appointed, and the other heirs typically sign renunciations.
Before an inherited house can be sold, New Jersey also usually needs an inheritance tax waiver — or, for close family, an affidavit — and any liens, judgments or back taxes have to be resolved. We coordinate all of it for you. Read our full New Jersey probate guide →
1 · Reach out
A short, unhurried call about the property and your family.
2 · Private offer
A private, written offer for the property, with every number shown.
3 · We handle probate
We handle it with the Bergen County Surrogate.
4 · Get paid
Close as-is, often in 30 to 60 days.
Edgewater and the towns around it
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We serve every municipality in Bergen County and all 21 New Jersey counties.
Edgewater questions
Our mother's Edgewater condo has monthly association fees. Does the estate keep paying them?
Association charges generally continue until the unit is sold, so they are part of what the estate carries. If the family sells to Gembrook, the estate's share ends at closing.
Would Gembrook consider an old house on the cliff side of River Road?
Yes. Older Edgewater houses on hillside lots are the kind of inherited property we look at, and the estate isn't asked to repair them first.
Where is probate filed for a house in Edgewater?
Probate for someone who lived in Edgewater is handled by the Bergen County Surrogate's Court in Hackensack. That's where a will is admitted, or an administrator is appointed when there's no will. When your family sells to Gembrook Properties, we handle this step with you, and in most cases you just sign where needed.
Can you cover the probate costs for a Edgewater property?
Yes, when your family sells the inherited property to Gembrook Properties. In many cases we cover the cost of opening the estate, including the family's estate attorney fees, so the family pays nothing out of pocket.
What if the heirs don't agree?
That's common. We speak with each heir separately and privately, so no one has to negotiate as a group, and the executor or court-appointed administrator signs the sale.
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