--- title: "Sell My House Fast in Reading, PA | Cash Offer Today | Nicolas Abitbol" description: "I buy houses for cash in Reading, PA, Centre Park, Northwest Reading, Southeast Reading, Northeast Reading, Hampden Heights, Penn Common. Berks County. Any condition. Nicolas Abitbol." url: "https://nicolasabitbol.com/reading-pa.html" last_updated: 2026-05-11 --- # I buy houses in Reading. **From the Victorian rows in the Centre Park Historic District to the older row homes in Southeast Reading, the twins in Hampden Heights, and the singles near Mount Penn, I buy across every Reading neighborhood, in any condition. City housing inspection outstanding, distressed inventory, Berks County foreclosure in motion. Real cash offer the same day you call.** --- ## Where I buy in Reading. I take houses in Centre Park, Northeast Reading, and the Southeast row blocks where the median sits among the lowest in the metro. All of Reading and the surrounding Berks County municipalities. Within the city: Centre Park Historic District in the northwest, with its well-preserved late Victorian and Queen Anne housing. Northwest Reading along Moss and Schuylkill Avenue. Northeast Reading toward 5th Street Highway. Southeast Reading, the densest part of the city, concentrated row homes, some of the lowest median prices in the metropolitan area, highest share of distressed inventory. Southwest Reading along Penn Avenue and Moss Street. Penn Common, Hampden Heights, and Pendora Park on the north and northeast edges. The Glenside area, the Riverside neighborhoods along the Schuylkill. The Mount Penn slope rising east of the city. Just outside the city limits: Wyomissing, West Reading, Shillington, Muhlenberg Township, Spring Township, and Exeter Township. If it's a Berks County address, I want to hear about it. Reading's primary ZIP codes: 19601 for the north-central city and the older row blocks; 19602 for Southeast Reading, the most distressed submarket; 19604 for Northeast Reading and the 5th Street corridor; 19605 for the Muhlenberg and northern suburban fringe; 19606 for the Mount Penn and Hampden Heights area; 19607 for Shillington and parts of Spring Township; 19609 and 19610 for Wyomissing and the western suburbs. I close in every one of those. Reading's housing stock is predominantly row homes in the city core, narrow two- and three-story attached houses, brick fronts in the historic sections, asphalt-sided rows in the mid-century sections, all built for the industrial workforce that filled this city a century ago. Many have been converted to multi-unit rentals and reconverted back, leaving behind added kitchens, non-conforming electrical, and modified floor plans. In the Hampden Heights and College Heights areas you see semi-detached twins and small single-family homes with slightly larger lots. What Reading has in particular abundance is distressed inventory, properties that have cycled through ownership and deferred maintenance to a point where conventional financing won't touch them. That's where I work. ## Why Reading sellers sell to me. Reading's retail real estate market is functional in certain segments and essentially broken in others. Properties in Wyomissing, the Hampden Heights corridor, or College Heights in decent condition move. Properties in Southeast Reading and Southwest Reading that need real work, not cosmetics, actual structural and system work, sit on the market indefinitely because most buyers can't finance them and the ones who can bid at prices that don't work for the seller. The city of Reading has a housing inspection requirement for residential resales, and when that inspection surfaces significant violations, the transaction stalls. Surrounding municipalities like West Reading have their own Use and Occupancy certificate requirements that can hold up a closing for weeks. Properties facing a sheriff's sale through the Berks County Court of Common Pleas need someone who can close before the auction date, not someone who needs six weeks to secure a mortgage. I'm built for that part of the market. I use my own capital and private lenders, no bank, no appraisal, no financing contingency. The city inspection is something I deal with, not something I need you to deal with before we sign. If the property has code violations, water/sewer judgments from the Reading Area Water Authority, or a municipal lien, those get resolved at closing. I price the repairs into the number, not around them. And I tell you straight if the math doesn't work, if I can't get close to retail minus real repairs, I say so and explain why. --- ## FAQ **Q: Does Reading require a housing inspection to sell?** A: Yes. The City of Reading requires a housing inspection for residential resales. The city documents violations and issues a certificate. Surrounding Berks County municipalities like West Reading have their own Use and Occupancy certificate requirements. I buy as-is in Reading and don't need violations cleared before we sign. The inspection process is part of every deal I do here and I know how to navigate it. **Q: I'm facing a sheriff's sale in Berks County. Is it too late?** A: Probably not, if you call before the sale date. Pennsylvania is a judicial foreclosure state and the Berks County Court of Common Pleas process typically runs 12 to 15 months from complaint to auction. Before that auction date, I can buy the property and pay off the mortgage at closing. Contact me as early as possible, the options narrow as the sale date approaches. **Q: Do you buy heavily distressed row homes in Southeast Reading?** A: Yes, that describes much of my Reading inventory. Row homes in the 19602 and 19601 ZIPs: deferred maintenance, aging systems, sometimes fire or water damage, high vacancy rates. None of that automatically breaks a deal. I price what needs to be done accurately and close on it. The number will reflect the condition, but I'm not going to walk away from a property just because it needs real work. **Q: Will you buy with a tenant in the property?** A: Yes. Reading's high rental share means I buy occupied properties regularly. Month-to-month, lease in place, informal arrangement, all variations. You don't have to remove anyone before we close. I handle the occupant relationship after settlement. **Q: How fast can you close in Reading?** A: Seven to fourteen days with a clean title. Reading city properties in the core ZIPs sometimes carry water/sewer judgments from the Reading Area Water Authority, old municipal assessment liens, or open probate complications. My title company handles it and I'll tell you on day one what's likely to affect the timeline.