Ocean County, New Jersey
An inherited house in Seaside Heights, handled with care.
When your family sells the property to us, we handle the probate at the Ocean 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 Seaside Heights
What families find in Seaside Heights.
Seaside Heights is a boardwalk town on the barrier peninsula, sitting where Route 37 comes off the Mathis and Tunney bridges from the mainland. Seaside Park and Toms River border it, and a two-mile boardwalk with Casino Pier lines its oceanfront. Its year-round population was about 2,440 in 2020, but most of its 2,870 homes were seasonal. Unlike most shore towns it has a good number of apartments, so an inherited property here may be a small multi-unit building or a rental house as often as a family's own home.
When a landlord passes
Apartments and multi-unit houses are more common here than in nearby beach towns, and in 2020 about 14 percent of rentals stood empty. If a parent owned one, the estate inherits the tenants, the leases and the vacant units. We can buy the building with tenants still in place and take over the landlord role after closing.
Storm and fire history
Sandy's 2012 floodwaters covered large parts of town and left the Star Jet roller coaster sitting in the surf; the next year a ten-alarm fire ran up the rebuilt boardwalk until it was stopped at Lincoln Avenue. A parent's property nearby may have old claims or unfinished permits. We take it in its current state.
Closed up for the winter
Sixty percent of homes here were counted as vacant in 2020, mostly because they are summer places. An inherited house that is closed for months can collect leaks or wear, and the heirs may live hours away. We buy the house with whatever is inside, so the family decides only what it wants to keep.
Probate for a Seaside Heights property
The Ocean 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 Ocean County that's the Ocean County Surrogate's Court in Toms River. 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 Ocean County Surrogate.
4 · Get paid
Close as-is, often in 30 to 60 days.
Seaside Heights and the towns around it
Neighboring towns we also serve
- Seaside Park
- Toms River
- Berkeley Township
We serve every municipality in Ocean County and all 21 New Jersey counties.
Seaside Heights questions
Dad owned a small apartment building in Seaside Heights. Do the tenants have to move out before the estate sells?
No. Leases carry on after an owner's death, and we can buy the building with the tenants there and take over the leases.
The house near the boardwalk still has open permits from storm repairs. Can the estate sell it?
Yes. We buy properties with open permits or unfinished repairs and address them after we own the house.
Where is probate filed for a house in Seaside Heights?
Probate for someone who lived in Seaside Heights is handled by the Ocean County Surrogate's Court in Toms River. 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 Seaside Heights 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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